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NOVEMBER  6,  1915 


HAS  THE  aUALITY  CIRCULATION  OF  THE  TRADE 


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FEATURES 


triumphant  release  for  tHHIlB|T9»f)nf'l^'f^  beautiful 
own  from  coast  to  coast  oiiia  oF  Aug-ustus  Thomases  masterpieces  of  the  &p«aking 
6tage.  Staged  and  acted  as  are  all  productions  of  Hobart  Bosvrorth  with  a  realism  and 
fine  acting  that  are  as  enjoyable  as  they  are  rare.  If  the  average  feature  concern  produced 
a  play  as  big  as  this  they  would  charge  you  $25  to  $65  rental,  and  the  picture  would  be 
^orth  it  ns  «  feature  release.  But  how  could  the  average  Elxhibitor  make  any  money  at  the 
bop  price?  That  is  the  question  for  you  to  consider.  As  a  Broadway  Universal  Feature  it 
is  released  on  the  regular  Universal  Program  at  so  slight  an  advance  in  cost  over  the  regu- 
lar seven-feature  program  that  any  Exhibitor  can  book  it,  show  it  to  packed  houses,  and 

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Film  Nt^nuffjoturine  iCaaicern  in  the  Un 

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PRESENTS 


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BELOVED  CLASSIC, 


ONE  OE  THE  TENDEREST 
CHARACTER.  CREATIONS 
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IN  FIVE  PARTS, 
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DANIEL  FROHMAN.Mana^ing  Director  EDWIN 'S •  PORTER-.Treas' ^  Gen'  Mg' 
SOT  FIFTH  AVE.  NEW  YORK 


Better  to  read  fifty  advertisements  tlian  to  miss  the  one  YOU  needf 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


VoL  12.  No.  18. 


Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTTHZ  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


November  6,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


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•QUITADLE  MOTION  PICTURE/  CORPORATIO 

LEWIS  J.  5ELZNICK.     VICE  PRE5.  AMD  ADVI50RY  DIDECTOR, 

C3E:1_EA5'ING  thoough 

WOPLD  FIL/vv  CORPORATION 


YOU  are  WMtiog  yonr  opportunitiei  if  TOTT  ignoie  adveituing. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    No.  18. 


ASSOCIATED 
SERVICE 

BACKED  BY 

The  Associated  Producers 

stands  ready  to  fill  your  wants 


ADVISE  us  OF  YOUR  WISHES 


Associated  Five  Reel  Features 


WILL  BE  READY  FOR  RELEASE 


First  Release 


"The  Sins 
ThatYeSin" 


featuring 


Gertrude 
Bondhill 


SIX 

big  ones  now  on  hand 

To  be 
released  in  addition 
to  our  regular 
service 

or  on 

State  Right  Basis 

Write  for  our  novel  plan  on  features 


Second  Release 

"The 
Birthmark" 

featuring 

Marguerite  Clayton 

and 

Emory  Johnson 


Associated  Releases  Week  of  November  1,  1915 


2  Reel  Drama  Santa  Barbara  Hilary  of  the  Hills 

2  Reel  Comedy  Empire   Out  for  a  Billion 

1  Reel  Comedy  Atla   —And  He  Came  Straight  Home 

2  Reel  Comedy  Bemner   In  and  Out 

1  Reel  Drama  Liberty   Unexpected  Reward 


1  Reel  Comedy  Federal   Rosie's  Many  Thorns 

1  Reel  Comedy  Alhambra   Mother-in-Law's  Vacation  Life 

in  the  West 

2  Reel  Drama  Ramona   The  Crimson  Circle 


Associated  Film  Sales  Corporation 


ARTHUR  BARD,  Gen'l  Mgr. 


110-112  West  40th  Street,  New  York 


Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTTJHE  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


November  6,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


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You  Want  Good  Live  Single  Reels 

Before  Showing  Your  Feature  Photoplay 

or  Afterward 

3  Big  Reasons  Why  Exhibitors 
Are  Contracting  For  The 
SOUTH  AMERICAN  TRAVEL  PICTURES 


to  your  program 


Variety  Travel  Pictures  lend  variety  to  your  program,  which  is  a  necessity 

to  attract  and  hold  a  class  patronage.  The  big  metropolitan  the- 
atres are  cutting  out  the  slap-stick,  wild  west  one  reelers,  and  run- 
ning scenics  instead.  There  are  sound  business  reasons  for  it — people  get  tired  of  the  same 
old  thing — they  want  something  new.  Do  you  insure  their  finding  it  in  your  theatre  ? 

Jjl^^g|igg^  At  this  time  everyone  is  interested  in  South  America.  The  press  is  giv- 

for  everyone  columns  and  columns  of  publicity.  The  trade  searchlight  is  focused 

on  South  America.  Are  you  capitalizing  on  this  interest  and  showing 
Paramount  South  American  Travel  Pictures? 

Real  '^^y  pictures  attracting  new  people  and  that  keep  them  coming  to  your  theatre. 
Value  '■^^^  kind  of  pictures  which  are  valuable  to  you.  Are  you  attracting  new  peo- 

ple by  using  the  Paramount  South  American  Travel  Pictures? 

ACTION  ALL  THE  WAY 

Every  foot  of  South  American  Travel  Pictures  teems  with  action ;  nothing 
inanimate  or  just  pretty,  but  big,  live  subjects — pulsing  with  life — showing 
the  twelve  republics  that  make  up  the  "Great  Continent  of  Opportunity." 
Every  foot  of  film  filled  with  action — action — action ! 

Book  now — through  Paramount  Exchanges 


"YOU  CAN  TRAVEL  120  MILES  PER  HOUR" 

— If  you  want  to  work  out  your  automobile  on  the  new 
$3,500,000  Sheepshead  Bay  Speedway. 

PARAMOUNT  SCOOP 
VINCENT  ASTOR  CUP  RACE 

Great  Single  Reel  Feature 

15  automobile  speed  demons,  madly  dashing  at  the  rate 
of  120  miles  an  hour  for  350  miles.  GREAT  PICTURE! 
Book  now — through  Paramount  Exchanges 


ONEHVNDHED  WTEN  WEST POK 111; IH  -  '  STREET 

NEW  YDRK.N.Y. 


Uany  a  packed  bouse  is  directly  traceable  to  an  advertisement  in  the  "News," 


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Vol.  12.   No.  18. 


Please  the  Public 


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They  are  shown  in  the  largest  and 
finest  theatres. 

They  afford  wide  variety — 
Comedy,  Drama,  Historical  sub- 
jects, Romance — 

Patrons  like  them — when  pa- 
trons are  satisfied  the  exhibitor 
makes  money,  and  Paramount 
exhibitors  are  the  most  successful 
and  prosperous  in  the  business. 

That  means  something  to  you! 

No  town  is  too  small  for  Para- 
mount Pictures. 

Every  town  should  have  them. 

Write  our  exchange,  tele- 
phone, or  better  still,  go  in  to 
see  the  manager.  He  will  tell 
you  why. 

ONE  HUNDRED  <W  TEN     <^    WE«T  FORTTFTH  STREET 

NEW  YORK.N.Y. 


M  M  IS  ^  M  M 


Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS' '  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


All  the  news  of  the  dailies — and  more — in  the 
new 

PARAMOUNT 
WEEKLY  NEWSPICTURES 

They  will  tell  your  patrons  about  the  unusual 
happenings  in  all  parts  of  the  United  States. 

Besides,  there  will  be  many  unique  features 
never  before  shown  in  film — subjects  of  fascinat- 
ing interest. 

This  will  be  a  regular  release! 

Something  new, 

Something  true, 

Something  Paramount. 

Going  Over  Big! 

Exhibitors  everywhere  are  making  their  con- 
tracts for  this  release. 

Don't  forget  the  release  date — November  8th! 

Write  your  exchange  today! 


^ paramount  ^HLctur^ 

ONE  HUNDRED  W  TEN     <^    WEST  FORTIETH  STREET 

NEW  YORK,N.Y. 


If  you  like  the  "News."  write  our  advertisers:  if  not.  tell  us. 


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Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


November  6.  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


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How  can  an  advertiser  continue  advertising?    By  giving  YOU  value. 


12  MOTION    PICTURE    NEWS  Vol  12.   No.  16 


PROVEN! 

A  Marvelous  Photo  P/aj  A  Drama  of  Power 

Splendidly  enacted  by  one  of  the  cleverest  character  actors  of  today 
 Read  What  the  Critics  Say  About  It:   


"  A  Masterpiece"  "A  Superfeature" 

Motion  Picture  World  New  York  Morning  Telegraph 

"Just  About  Perfect"  "Huge  Success" 

Motion  Picture  News  New  York  Journal 

"Created  A  Sensation"  "Caught  the  Attention  of  Broadway" 

New  York  American  New  York  Evening  Mail 

"If  there  was  a  dry  eye  in  the  theatre,  it  must  have  been  a  glass  one!" — New  York  Herald 

GEORGE  BEBAN 

IN 

"An  Alien" 

Produced  by  Thomas  H.  Ince 


Jj^  Woridcrf  111  Record  today  letter  from  a  Kansas  exhibitor — town  of  3000 
  population — 600  colored. 


"Eleven  hundred  paid  admissions  at  25c.  each, 
voted  'AN  ALIEN'  the  greatest  picture  ever 
produced.    Everyone  expected  to  cry  and  did. ' ' 

3>Iany  similar  letters  of  endorsement. 

Big  Box  Office  Receipts  —  Numerous  Re-Bookings  —  Thousands   of   Pleased  Patrons 
Do  Not  Fail  to  Obtain  This  Wonderful  Picture! 


WRITE  THE  NEAREST  PARAMOUNT  EXCHANGE 


SELECT  FILM  BOOKING  AGENCY,  Times  Building,  New  York 


Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


leinbcr  6.  1915, 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


The  more  YOU  read  these  advertisements  the  more  useful  to  YOU  we  can  make  the  "News." 


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/fas  Moide  Friends  of 


Moving  Picture  World--Oct.  9,  1915 

"  The  comedy  is  all  action— There  is  a  pleasing 
absence  of  slapstick  play— With  its  accessories  of 
good  photography  and  above-mentioned  attri- 
butes of  direction  and  cast  it  bids  fair  for  a  large 
following  in  leading  picture  houses." 


Dramatic  Mirror-Oct.  6,  1915 

"Max  Figman  makes  a  thoroughly  delightful  'Blackie  Daw',  and 
Burr  Mcintosh  displays  the  suave  smooth  unctuousness  of  George 
Randolph  Chester's  mythical  character  in  a  manner  so  convincing 
that  one  almost  imagines  that  he  has  just  stepped  from  the  pages  of 
the  book.  The  Whartons  should  be  highly  commended.  If  the 
following  episodes  are  as  entertaining  as  the  first  this  should  prove 
to  be  a  mighty  good  and  mighty  profitable  serial  picture." 


PathJ 

EXECUITVI 
25  WEST  45t&  S 


Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


November  6,  1915. 


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WiLUNGFOBD 

/111  who  have  Seen  If  / 


Motography-Oct.  16,  1915 

"The  name  of  any  one  ot  the  three  artists  (Max 
Figman,  Burr  Mcintosh  and  Lolita  Robertson), 
announced  as  the  featured  player  in  a  production 
should  make  it  a  box  office  attraction.  Together 
they  make  a  cast  of  unusual  strength." 


Motion  Picture  News-Oct.  9, 1915 

"Burr  Mcintosh  as  'Wallingford'  and  Max  Figman  as 
*Blackie  Daw'  are  of  just  the  type  we  have  imagined  all 
these  characters.  The  humor  which  is  the  basis  of  the 
whole  picture  is  a  refreshing  relief  from  the  slapstick  sort 
which  has  played  so  large  a  part  in  series  pictures  of 
the  past." 


Exchange  i 


HFFICES 
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We  have  secured  good  advertiseis  to  talk  to  YOTT,    Listen  to  them! 


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Vol.  12.    Xo.  18. 


SUPPORTED  BY  THE  POPULAR 

FAVORITE    /^^h  Roland 

COIVIRAOE 


Story  <^nd 
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EXECUTIVE 
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November  6,  1915. 


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IN  THE    FIVE  PART 

Gold  Rooster  I^Iau 

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A^Samuel  Merwiaana  Henry  K Webster 


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EXCHANG 

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NEW  YORK 


Our  advertisers  tell  us  when  we  give  YOU  the  best  magazine. 


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Vol.  12.   No.  18. 


"CAR.MEN" 

DIRECTED  BY  R.  A.  WALSH 

STANDS  SUPREMELY  AND  RESIST- 
LESSLY    ALONE    AND  UNRIVALLED 

PAST  ALL  PRECEDENT  IN  LAV- 
ISH   SPLENDOR    AND  MAGNITUDE 

THEDA  BARA'S  LIFE  TRIUMPH  AS  THE 
HAUGHTY  AND  INTOLERANT  GYPSY 
BEAUTY  IN  EVERY  CONCEIVABLE  WAY 
MARKS  AN  EPOCH  IN  MOVING  PICTURES 


COMING  — SCREEN  DEBUT  of  ROBERT  B. 
MANTELL,  FOREMOST  EXPONENT  of  DRA- 
MATIC ART,  AND  GENEVIEVE  HAMPER. 
BEAUTIFUL  AND  GIFTED  ACTRESS'iIN 

"THE  BLINDNESS  OF  DEVOTION'* 


III 


Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  FICTUBE  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisen. 


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Vol  12.   No.  18. 


miERIOK 


Ushering  in  a  Program — Plus 

Kriterion  is  being  built  on  business  principles  by  men 
who  have  succeeded  beyond  the  average  in  their  own 
business. 

The  day  of  haphazard  film  is  passed.  The  Kriterion 
program  is  being  planned  to  give  the  public  big  stars 
of  stage  and  screen,  compelling  stories,  exceptional  di- 
rection and  photography. 

Its  exchanges  are  being  organized  to  insure  their  suc- 
cess— financially  strong,  properly  backed  up — in  the 
hands  of  exceptionally  able  men. 

Kriterion  itself  is  a  close  corporation — amplj'  financed 
— with  no  stock  to  sell — with  a  clean  cut  business  pol- 
icy in  which  extravagance  of  management  and  "front" 
have  no  part. 

Building  on  bed  rock  takes  time. 
Watch  Kriterion. 

Kriterion  Sales  Corporation 

1600  Broadway 


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Se  snre  to  mention  "MOUOK  PIOXUBE  BKWB"  whsa  writinff  to  advaitUan. 


November  6,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Triangle  Spells  Dollars 
to  These  Men 

Hulsey,  of  Texas,  doesn't  think  in  nickels  and  dimes. 
He  thinks  in  big  sums — like  a  regular  Texan.  A  hun- 
dred thousand  a  year  won't  stop  Hulsey.  So — his  the- 
atres in  Dallas,  Waco,  Galveston  and  Houston  are  all 
in  the  TRIANGLE  now. 

And  Jake  Wells — everybody  knows  Wells.  He  has 
come  into  the  TRIANGLE  GARDEN,  because  he 
wants  the  best.  So  Richmond  and  Norfolk,  will  have 
TRIANGLE  SERVICE.  Costs  don't  worry  Wells. 
He's  after  results. 


Simpson  and  Gordon,  of  Rochester,  made  a  success 
of  their  Regent  Theatre.  But  it  wasn't  big  enough. 
Now  they've  bought  a  little  insurance  for  more  success 
—they've  joined  the  TRIANGLE  FAMILY. 

Out  in  Seattle,  there's  a  man  by  the  name  of  Jensen. 
You'll  find  him  at  the  Liberty  Theatre.  Jensen  will 
spend  money  if  you  can  show  him  something  worth 
while  to  spend  it  on.  He's  a  TRIANGLE  recruit — for 
nearly  as  much  money  as  the  President  of  the  United 
States  gets. 

TRIANGLE  and  success  are  interchangeable  terms 
to  these  men  —  they  investigated:  then  they  bought. 
Doesn't  this  evidence  affect  you? 


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COi2PORATION 

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its  forked  tongue  pins  the  girl  on  its  fiery- 
coals.  She  is  heJplessly  caught  in  political 
machinations  which  are  most  adroitly 
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with  the  girl's  life  and  love — but  true  to  rot- 
ten politics  and  its  underground  methods. 
A  Real  drama  of  feature  fullness  of  interest 
of  the  new  Edison  standard,  not  to  be 
measured  in  mere  footage.  Direction  Frank 
McGlynn.   Friday,  November  12. 


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CONSISTENCY 


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If  you  have  been  in  the 
picture  business  as  long: 
as  we  have,  you  will 
know  one  thing — VITA- 
GRAPH  has  consistently 
produced  the  best  pict- 
ures in  the  world  for  the 
greatest  number  of 
years. 

That's  a  pretty  good 

reason  to  book  them. 

Through  the  General 
Film  Exchange 


"Between  Two  Fires" 

Comedy  MONDAY.  NOV.  1 

.Aim  and  Belinda  are  both  rivals  for  the  love  of  Finley  Jones,  a 
ttell-io-do  baclielor.  and  the  two  women  shower  him  with  iiitfn- 
lions.  Kinallv  both  send  him  leap-year  proposals  and  that  settles 
it— he  ■  duiki."  Presenting  FLOR.\  FINCH.  K.\TE  PRICE  and 
WILLUM  SHEA. 

"The  Sultan  of  Zulon" 

Tuo-Pan  Comedy   TUISDAY,  NOV.  2 

The  Sultan  advertises  for  an  .\nieriean  «ife.  and  a  young  seam- 
stress replies — to  find  he  and  his  adverti'^ements  are  both  fakes. 
.\musing  adventures  culminate  happily.  HIGHIE  M.\CK,  DOR- 
OTHY KELLY  and  DONALD  MaeBRIDE. 

"A  Family  Picnic" 

Comedy   WEDNESDAY.  NOV.  3 

It  is  strenuoiLslv  funny  and  Jlr.  Jones'  gr-at  Dane  pup  sets  the 
uhole  town  going  Iwfore  he  gets  thrmigli.     An  all-sfar  cast. 


Six  a  Week,  Including  a  Three-Part  Broadway  Star  Feature 

'  NO  TICKEE— NO  WASHEE'  — Comedy  -   

CALIFOKNIA  SCRAP  BOOK — Educational  >  ^,„.„ 

■  FOR  THE  HONOR  OF  THE  CREW — Thret-Part  Drama.    Broadway  Star  Feature  TUESDAY. 

•HATS  IS  HATS'  — Comedy   WEDNESDAY, 

■  SIS- —Comedy   THURSDAY. 

ROMANTIC  REGGIE- —Comedy   ,  ^.J'''^*!,' 

■'THE  WOMAN  S  SHARE  ' — Two-Part  Drama   SATURDAY, 

VITAGRAPH  ONE.  THKEE  AND  SIX  SHEET  POSTERS. 


TRE  YITAGRAPR  COmPAHy  OF  mmck 


EXECUTIVE  OFFICES 


EAST  I5^»5T.  6  LOCUST  AVE.,  BROOKLYN,  N  Y. 
NEW  YORK    CHICAGO  LONDON  PARIS 


"The  Ebony  Casket" 

Comedy-Drama   THURSDAY.  NOV. 

It  contains  a  big  surprise,  brings  happiness  to  one  young  couple, 
while  two  rascals  only  get  the  laugh.    An  all-star  cast. 

'Beautiful  Thoughts" 

Comedy  


Henry's  wife  becomes  Imbued  »1th  the  "Beautiful  Thoughts"  fad. 
but  he  cures  her  effectually  and  nerminentlv  Featuring  MB. 
and  MRS.  SIDNEY  DREW 

"Anselo  Lee" 

Three-Part  Drama.    Broia-.iav  Star  Feature. 

SATURDAY,  NOV.  G 

.\  wonderfully  appealing  love  storv  of  a  .voung  gv-psy's  love  for  a 
girl  of  wealth  and  posiUon.  ANTONIO  MORENO  and  NAOMI 
CHILDERS  play  the  leads. 


Be  sure  to  mention  "M^TrON  P.CIUEE  NE'W'S"  when  writing  to  aJve'-tisers. 


November  6,  1915. 


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BROADWAY  M  mm  BRING  m  BUSINESS 


THEV  ARE  INDlSPUTABCf  THE  PESTTHREE  REELERS INTHE  WORLD 

"AN5EL0  LEE''  is  A  picture  worth  booking  

It  features  

ANTONIO  MORENO  and  NAOMI  CHILPERS  .... 
,  The  story  bubbles  over  with  startling  situations 
And  contains  more  heart  interest  . . 

In  three  thousand  feet  

Than  you  will  find  

In  the  average  hve  reeler 

RELEASEP  NOVEMBER e^i' 


THE  STORY 


Old  i^RS.  lee,  a  famous  witch  and  fortune-teller  OFTHEGVPSY  TRlBe5,HA5  a  50N,AN5EL0,, 
strapping,  handsome  FELLOW.  GERTRUDE, DAUGHTER  OF  WEALTHY  MRS.  CARLTON, VISITS  THE  GYPSY 
CAMP  WITH  A  PARTY  OF  HER  FRI  EN  DS,  MEETS  ANSELO^AND  15  AT  ONCE  FASCINATED  BY  HiM.  A  CHARMING 
ROMANCE  F0LL0W5,WHICH  HOWEVER,  15  SHADOWED  BY  STRONG  OBJECTIONS  ON  BOTH  SIDES.  BUT  IT  I5THE 
SUPREME  LOVE  WHICH^ON  AN5EL0"3  PART,  APPROACHES  REVERENCE,THAT  5USTAIN5THEM  DESPITE  ALL 
OBSTACLES.  AFFAIRS  CON  E  TO  A  CLI MAX-TH  E  OLD  WITCH  AND  MRS.  CARLTON  FINALLY  SUCCEED  IN  SEPARATING 
THE  YOUNG  COUPLE, AND  AN5EL0  LOSES  ALLTRACK  OFTHE  GIRL.  HEART&ROKEN,HE  FOLLOWS  HIS  WANDERING 
TRIBE  FOR  MANY  WEARY  MONTHS.  FINALLY,HE  LOCATES  GEJ^TRUDE  AGAIN,  BUT  SHE  IS  VERY  5ICK 
AND  AFTER  A  BRI  EF  PERI  OD  OF  HAPPINESS,  SHE  DIES  IN  HIS  ARMS 

TRE  YiUGRAPficomwiny  OF  mmck 

executive:  offices 

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iNFW  VOI>K    CHICAGO  LONDON  PAmSi 


The  advertising  in  the  "News"  is  the  gateway  to  a  wise  purchase. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol  12.   No.  18. 


Gef  out  of  the  rut 

V\/ith  competition  so  strong 

It  is  up  to  you 

To  do  things  different 

Get  out  of  the  rut 

V/ithso  many  so-called  features 
0n  the  market — 
V/ith  so  nian^  poor  releases 
Itisuptoyou 
To  choose  wisely 

Get  out  of  the  rut 

See  every  pictureyou  book- 
Evamine  theaSvertisirg- 
Gmpare  it  with  other  features- 
And— 

Ifyou^ont  bookfifly  percenf  more 
Vita^raph  Blue  Ribbon  Features 
Than  any  other, 
V/emiss  our^uess. 

This  IS  one  way 
To^t  outof  the  rut. 


TH['TURNOFTIIEROADisa 
Startling 
Sensational 
Drama 

Thcreare  plenty  of  thrills 
That  v/i  1 1  makeyour  heart 
Beat  faster. 
Thereis  plenty  of  heart  interest 
To  brin^tears  toyoureyes. 
A^alaxy  of  stars 
Such  as 

Virginia  Pearson 
Joseph  Ki'lgour 
Naomi  Childersand 
Bohby  Connelly 
Andanassortmentofd^vertisir^dicts 
That  V(^illav/akeii  vital  interest. 
Released  November  |57 


TfiE  YIUGRAPA  COmPAHy  OF  A!R£Fia 


EXECUTIVE  OFFICES 


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Better  to  lead  fifty  advertisements  than  to  miss  the  one  YOV  need. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    No.  18. 


An  Enemy 
of  Mankind 


the  first  of  the  Twelve 
Weekly  Two  -  Act 
Episodes  of  the  greatest 
of  all  Kal  em  Series 


Stingaree 


Adapted  from  the 
famous  novel  written  by 
E.  W.  Hornung,  author  of 
"Raffles,  "  will  be  Released 


We dnesd ay 
November  24th 


Special  1,  3  and  6 -sheet 
4 -color  Lithographs 
for  Each  Episode 


Each  Episode  complete  in  itself. 
An}'  branch  of  the  General  Film 
Company,  or  Greater  New  York 
Film  Rental  Company,  can 
book  vou  for  the  entire  series. 


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Her  rash  resolve  to  aid  the  victim  of  a  band  of  blackmailers  gets  Marguerite 
into  a  predicament  as  dangerous  as  ever  confronted  a  girl.  The  story  is  told  in 

THE  KIDNAPPED  HEIRESS 


AN 
OF 


RELEASED  FRIDAY,  NOVEMBER  12th 

EPISODE  jjjg  VENTURES  OF  MARGUERITE 

jAseries  of  powerful  one-act  modern  ^dramas,  eachicom- 
plete  in  itself  and  issued  we  ekly,^fe  aturing  ' 

MARGUERITE  COURTOT 

Because  the  exclusive  creations  worn  by  Miss  Courtot  in 
this  Series  are  furnished  by  Russek.  of  Fifth  Avenue, 
America's  foremost  fashion  authority^  the  "Ventures" 
present  a  special  appeal  to  the  ladies.  'Anybranch  office 
of  the  General  Film  Company,  or  the  Greater  New' York 
Film  Rental  Company  can  book  you  for  this  Series. 


YOU  are  wasting  your  opportunities  if  YOTT  ignore  advertising, 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol  12.   No.  18. 


Essanay  is  pii 

Year's  Greatest 

"THE  CRIM 

By  Hobart  C. 

Directed  by 

E.  H.  CALVERT  and 

with  an  all-star  cast  areii 
photodrama  oil 

BOOK    THIS    GREAT  6- 

Xtipougri   All  V.LJ 


1333  ARGYLE    ST.,  CHICAGO 

Trademark  Reg. 

^  ^  George  K.  Spoor,  President 

Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


November  6,  1915.  MOTION    PICTURE    NEWS  31 


>senting  the 

Battle  Drama 

SON  WINQ 


99 


Cliatfielcl-Xaylop 

E.   H.  Calvert 

RUTH  STONEHOUSE 

'eatured  in  this  spectacular 
war  and  romance 

ACT    THRILLER  NOW! 


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Trademark  Reg. 

George  K.  Spoor,  President  "  ^ 

Many  a  packed  house  is  directly  traceable  to  an  advertisement  in  the  "News." 


32  MOTIONPICTURENEWS  Vol.  12.  No.  18. 

TO  THE  MAN 


You  may  think  you  have  s< 
have  never  seen  a  f| 
so  many  hei 


€6 


A  BUNCM 

The  Greatest  of  Cliai 

Ppoduced  by  RIcli 

JOHN    SLAVIN  ' 

and  JUNE  KEITH  are 


BOOK   THIS    BIG  ESS 

1 

Xtirougti  All  Branc 


'P/a/smvo/u 


Trademark  Reg. 
U.  S.  Pat  1907. 


1333    ARGYLE   ST.,  CHICAGO 

George  K.  Spoor,  President 

Be  sure  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS''  when  ■writing  to  advertiseis. 


.rember  6,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


33 


WHO  LAUGHS 

m  funny  pictures.   But  you 
/e-reel  comedy  with 
•ty  laughs  as 

OF  KEYS" 

les  Hoyt's  comedies 

ard  F'oster  BaRer 

WILLIAM  BURRESS 

the  laugh  manufacturers 
ANAY  SUCCESS  NOW! 

ties  of  me  V.L.S.E. 

Tys/s/g/n/g/u 

1333    ARGYLE   ST.,  CHICAGO 

George  K.  Spoor,  President 

If  ;ou  like  the  "News,"  'write  our  advertisers;  if  not,  tell  us. 


Trademark  Reg. 
U.  S.  Pat  1907. 


34 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol  12.   No.  18. 


THE  INDIAN^S 
AIM  IS  TRUE 


The  Indian  Head  brand  of  photoplays  always 
hits  the  mark. 

Ask  the  exhibitor  who  has  booked  these  great 
Essanay  feature  plays : 

"INTHE  PALACE  OF  THE  KING"! 

(in  6  actsj  ! 

By  F.  Marion  Crawford.    Directed  by  Fred  E.  Wright  | 

Featuring  RICHARD  C.  TRAVERS,  E.  J.  RATCLIFFE, 
NELL    CRAIG,    ERNEST    MAUPAIN,  ARLEEN 
HACKETT,    LILLIAN    DREW,    LEWIS  EDGARD, 
SYDNEY     AINSWORTH     AND     THOMAS  j 
COMMERFORD.  j 

"THE  MAN  TRAIL"  (in  6  acts)  ■ 

By  Henry  Oyen.    Directed  by  E.  H.  Calvert 

Featuring  RICHARD  C.  TRAVERS 

"A  BUNCH  OF  KEYS"  (i„5  am, 

By  Charles  Hoyt.    Directed  by  Richard  Foster  Baker 

Featuring  JUNE  KEITH,  JOHN  SLAVIN  and 
WILLIAM  BURRESS 

The  Blindness  of  Virtue"  acts) 

By  Cosmo  Hamilton.    Directed  by  Joseph  Byron  Totten 

Featuring  EDNA  MAYO  and  BRYANT  WASHBURN 

"THE  WHITE  SISTER"un6acts 

ByF.  Marion  Craw.'ord.    Directed  by  Fred  E.  Wright 

Featuring  VIOLA  ALLEN  and  RICHARD  C  TRAVERS 

"THE  SLIM  PRINCESS",i„4acts, 

By  George  Ade.   Directed  by  £.  H.  Calvert 

Featuring  RUTH  STONEHOUSE 

"GRAUSTARK"  (in  6  acts) 

By  Georyo  B«rr  |4c^<<tcti«on.  Directed  by  Fred  E.  Wright 


•'FIR3T   TO   STAtlDARDIZE  PHOTOPLAYJ"' 


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Metro  Pictures,  Ltd. 
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71  W.  23d  St.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

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Nola  Bldg.,  407  Carondelet  St.,  New  Orleans,  La. 

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39 


YOU  CAN  BOOK  ESSANAY  PLAYS 
WITHOUT  LOOKING  AT  THEM 

There  is  a  dramatic  quality  and  artistic  finish  about  all  Essanay 
photoplays  that  touches  the  heart. 

They  have  that  human  interest  element  that  grips  the  spectator. 

Essanay  plays  are  standardized.   They  are  all  up  to  the  highest 
mark  of  excellence. 

\^^atch  for  the  next  great 

ESSANAY-CHAPLIN  COMEDY 

"A  Night  In  the  Show" 

with  Charles  Chaplin,  the  world's  greatest 
comedian  in  a  new  and  funnier-than-ever  role 


"TWICE  INTO  THE  LIGHT" 

3  act  drama  Nov.  8  By  Joseph  Anthony  Roach 
Featuring  John  Lorenz.  Directed  by  A.  Berthelet. 


"WINE,  WOMEN  AND  SONG" 

2  act  drama  Nov.  9 

Featuring 


How  can  an  advertiser  continua  advertising?    By  giving  YOTT  value. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Henry  B.  Walthall 
depicts  Poe's  anguish 
over  starving  wife 

In  a  tumble  down  hut  at  Fordham,  in  the  outskirts 
of  New  York  City,  Edgar  Allan  Poe  sat  by  the  bed  of 
his  dying  wife. 

The  snow  sifted  through  the  poor  patched  roof  and 
broken  door,  and  the  midnight  winds  swept  it  in  drifts 
across  the  floor. 

The  beautiful  young  wife  was  wrapped  in  Poe's  old 
army  coat,  her  only  covering.  She  needed  warmth  and 
food,  but  Poe  was  penniless. 

In  the  night  hours  he  watched  his  adored  wife,  starv^- 
ing,  shivering  with  cold,  until  death  released  her. 

His  sensitive  soul  was  torn  with  horror  and  despair. 
But  his  genius  burned  clear.  Out  of  blood  and  anguish 
was  born  what  has  since  been  acknowledged  as  one  of 
the  greatest  masterpieces  of  the  English  language — "The 
Raven." 

Essanay  has  created  a  wonderfully  artistic  six  act 
photoplay  of  "The  Raven,"  founded  on  Poe's  life  as  pre- 
sented in  the  widely  known  novel  and  play  by  George  C. 
Hazelton,  and  directed  by  Charles  J.  Brabin. 

HENRY  B.  WALTHALL,  the  living  image  of  Poe, 
with  Warda  Howard,  the  great  emotional  actress,  make 
of  this  masterpiece  a  drama  that  throbs  with  life  and 
intense  action. 


1333   ARGYLE   ST.,  CHICAGO 

George  K.  Spoor,  President 


Trademark  Keg. 
U.  S.  Pat.  1907. 


Be  Bare  to  mention  "MOTION  PICTXTEZ  NEWS"  when  writing  to  advertisers. 


"When  You  See  it 
in  'The  News* 
It's  NEWS- 


LOS  ANGELES,  CAUFORNIA 
427  SO.  FIGUEROA  STREET 


HAS  THE  gUALlTY  CIRCULATION  OF  THE  TRADE 


NEW  YORK  CITY 
TWO  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY  WEST  FORTY-SECOND  STREET 


"The  Exhibitors' 

Medium  of 
Communicatioo" 


CHICAGO,  ILUNOiS 
110  SO.  DEARBORN  STREET 


Volume  XII 


NOVEMBER  6,  1915 


No.  18 


The  Reviewer,  The  Producer  and  the  Exhibitor 


THERE  are  so  many  false  notions  about  what  the  re- 
viewing attitude  of  a  trade  paper  toward  pictures 
should  be,  that  it  is  time  some  of  these  notions  were 
exploded  and  exploded  for  good. 

One  of  these  is,  that  any  picture  which  violates  the 
canons  of  art  should  be  condemned. 

Another  is,  that  every  review  should  be  a  masterpiece 
of  literary  effort,  in  which  is  displayed  in  all  its  variegated 
completeness,  the  reviewer's  "preparedness"  on  the 
English  language. 

A  third  is,  that  the  reviewer  is  infallible,  and  that  any 
picture  which  he  does  not  like,  must,  therefore,  be  a  poor 
picture. 

The  most  pernicious  of  these  is  probably  the  last,  and 
it  is  usually  to  be  found  in  company  with  the  second. 

We  beg  to  disagree  emphatically  with  each  and  all  of 
these  theories. 

*       *  * 

HTHE  whole  matter  of  trade  reviewing  can  be  summed 
up  in  these  words : 

1.  The  reviewer  on  a  trade  paper  is,  in  reality,  the 
projection  room  representative  of  the  exhibitor. 

2.  As  such,  he  is  concerned  first  and  principally,  with 
ih^  box-office — that  is,  the  money-making-possibilities,  of 
the  pictures  he  reviews. 

3.  The  box-office  success  of  a  picture  does  not  depend 
upon  its  artistic  or  theoretical  perfection. 

4.  The  reviewer's  personal  opinion  of  a  picture  is  abso- 
lutely worthless,  unless  he  is  certain  it  will  agree  with 
the  opinion  of  the  thousands  who  will  see  that  picture  at 
their  theatres. 

'> 

TTHE  reviewer,  we  repeat,  is  the  representative  of  the 
exhibitor  in  the  producers'  projection  rooms. 

He  is  not  writing  to  please  the  manufacturer.  He  is 
not  writing  to  please  himself. 

He  is  looking  at  every  picture  because  the  exhibitor 
cannot  be  there  to  see  it  himself,  and  it  is  his  duty  to  see 
the  picture  as  the  exhibitor  zi-oiild  see  it  if  he  ivere  there. 

Now  the  exhibitor  is  a  business  man.  He  is  not  an 
expert  on  high  art.  or  on  theories  of  dramatic  construc- 
tion, or  on  philosophies  of  emotion  and  life.  He  is  a  busi- 
ness man — and  his  chief  business  is  to  know  and  to  recog- 
nize at  sight,  what  the  people,  to  whom  he  caters,  want. 

!k         *  * 

"yHE  men  and  women  of  the  audience  are  not  experts, 
^  either,  nor  analysts,  nor  critics.  They  endorse  a  pic- 
ture, or  condemn  it,  as  a  ivhole.  They  do  not  and  cannot 
resolve  it  into  its  component  parts,  and  weigh  the  value 
of  each  element  in  the  total  strength  of  the  picture.  They 
do  not  and  cannot  appraise  it  by  abstract  standards.  They 
like  a  picture — or  they  don't  like  it.    That  is  all. 


And  over  and  over,  audiences  have  applauded  pictures 
which  violated  artistic  dogmas,  which  were  founded  upon 
strained  psychology,  which  have  scandalized  dramatic 
technicians  because  of  their  loose  construction,  which  have 
been  badly  set,  and  indifferently  acted — because  they  liked 
them,  in  spite  of  those  weaknesses.  And  over  and  over 
again  they  have  failed  to  be  impressed  by  pictures  which 
were  sumptuously  and  correctly  staged,  admirably  acted 
and  satisfied  every  dramatic  nicety— simply  and  solely  be- 
cause they  "didn't  like  them,"  in  spite  of  those  elements  of 
strength. 

^       ^  ^ 

IN  other  words,  a  picture  may  violate,  at  a  score  of 
*■  points,  the  trained  critic's  sense  of  what  a  good  picture 
should  be,  and  pack  the  theatres — and  a  picture  may  be 
hailed  as  a  masterpiece  by  the  critics,  and  go  begging  for 
patronage. 

Art  and  success  are  quite  independent  of  each  other. 
When  they  meet  it  is  an  accident.  When  they  don't,  it  is 
a  misfortune. 

But  the  pubhc  is  the  arbiter  of  success,  and  the  public 
is  not  an  art  authority.   It  knows  what  it  wants.    H  it  can 
have  that  want  supplied  in  an  artistic  manner,  well  and 
good.   If  not,  art  may  whistle.   It  will  have  what  it  wants. 
'  *       *  * 

IF  art  were  synonymous  with  success,  Isadora  Dun- 
can would  have  packed  them  in  at  the  Century  for  a 
year,  and  "Chin-Chin"  would  have  closed  the  first  week. 

If  art  and  success  were  inseparable,  "The  Old  Home- 
stead" would  have  perished  under  a  bhzzard  of  paper,  and 
Percy  Mackaye's  blank  verse  dramas  would  be  household 
words  in  every  American  home. 

It  is  such  people  the  exhibitor  is  bound  to  represent. 
And  it  is  such  a  public  the  trade  reviewer  must  keep  in 
mind  in  every  review. 

*       *  * 

'T'HIS  means  merely  that  cocksure  condemnation  of  a 
picture,  no  matter  how  lofty  the  motive  or  how. 
artistic  the  balance  in  which  it  is  weighed,  is  out  of  place 

the  rez  iew  pages  of  a  picture  journal. 

There  are  millions  of  motion  picture  patrons,  with  all 
kinds  of  tastes  for  all  kinds  of  pictures — with  a  leniency 
of  judgment  for  detail,  but  a  fastidious  insistence  that  the 
total  effect  of  the  picture  be  to  their  liking. 

The  best  picture  made  will  not  satisfy  every  one  of  these 
millions;  the  poorest  will  find  many  receptive  audiences 
among  them.  And  what  the  public  standard  of  judgment 
is,  no  man  has  ever  discovered,  so  that  he  could  reduce  it 
to  a  formula,  and  turn  out  successes  with  mathematical 
certainty. 

(Continued  on  page  42.) 


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No.  18 


The  Reviewer,  The  Producer  and  The  Exhibitor 

iContinued  from  page  41.) 

I  TXDER  such  conditions,  it  is  not  for  one  reviewer,  or 
any  number  of  reviewers  to  condemn  a  picture  be- 
fore it  has  reached  and  been  passed  upon  by  the  public, 
whose  opinion  alone  is  worth  anything  to  the  exhibitor 
and  the  producer. 

This  does  not  mean  that  every  picture  shall  be 
uniformly  praised.  It  does  not  mean  that  every  fault  shall 
be  ignored. 

What  it  does  mean  is  this : 

To  the  reviewers  of  a  trade  paper,  every  finished  picture 
is  first,  a  product  to  be  marketed,  and  last,  a  work  of  art. 

As  such,  the  main  question  to  be  answered  by  the  trade 
reviewer  is — will  this  picture  make  money  for  the  ex- 
hibitor who  books  it,  and  how  many  possible  reasons  are 
there  for  supposing  it  will  ? 

P\OES  it  need  to  be  repeated  that  this  applies  to  the 
'-^  review  pages,  and  to  those  alone?  In  editorials,  in 
special  articles,  the  journal  can  and  should  assail  every 
weakness  in  the  producing  end  of  the  business,  and  con- 
tinually demand  progress  and  improvement  in  every  depart- 
ment of  the  studio.  But  its  reviews  should  not  be  converted 
into  either  editorials  or  special  articles  on  these  subjects, 
at  the  expense  of  a  picture  as  yet  untried  by  the  public. 

This  does  not  involve  representing  the  picture  to  be 
something  it  is  not.  It  is  only  emphasizing  what  the  pic- 
ture is.  It  is,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  one  safeguard  against 
that  fatal  attitude  of  mind  into  which  all  reviewers  and 
critics  are  prone  to  fall— the  attitude  which  assumes  that, 
because  a  picture  is  not  all  it  ought  to  be.  it  is  commercially 
and  to  the  public,  worth  nothing. 

*       *  * 

IN  about  four  cases  out  of  ten,  it  is  self-evident  that  the 
picture,  masterpiece  or  no  masterpiece,  will  be  a  money- 
maker.   When  the  reviewer  has  said  so,  he  is  through. 
In  the  other  six,  the  exhibitor  alone  can  be  the  judge. 


and  he  cannot  always  tell  until  he  has  tried  it  on  an 
audience.  When  such  a  picture  is  to  be  reviewed,  there 
is  only  one  thing  for  the  reviewer  to  do — inform  the  ex- 
hibitor of  the  picture's  effect  as  a  whole,  of  its  contents, 
and  its  obzionsly  strong  and  obviously  weak  features,  and 
without  pronouncing  any  verdict  himself,  leave  the  ex- 
hibitor to  determine  upon  the  entire  evidence,  not  whether 
it  is  a  good  picture  or  a  poor  picture,  but  whether  it  is  a 
good  picture  or  a  poor  picture  for  his  theatre. 

The  reviewer  may  enumerate  any  catalogue  of  defects 
he  pleases,  but  unless  absolutely  certain  of  his  ground,  he 
must  not  lead  the  exhibitor  to  beliez'e  that  anyone  of  these 
faults,  or  all  of  them  combined,  make  it  impossible  for  him 
to  book  and  profit  with  that  picture. 

*  *  * 

T^HIS  is  the  only  attitude  a  trade  paper  can  assume, 
on  its  revieiv  pages,  in  fairness  to  the  producer  and 
the  exhibitor.  On  any  other  page  in  the  magazine  any 
propaganda  for  the  uplift  and  improvement  of  pictures  may 
be  undertaken  at  any  length,  in  any  form.  But  never  on 
the  review  pages,  at  the  expense  of  any  particular  picture 
which  still  has  a  reputation  and  an  income  to  earn  for  its 
producer. 

This  in  fairness  to  the  exhibitor,  be  it  repeated. 

For  it  is  just  as  wrong  to  assure  an  exhibitor  he  cannot 
make  money  with  a  picture  on  which  other  exhibitors'  ex- 
perience will  prove  that  he  can,  as  it  is  to  assure  him  he 
can  make  money  by  booking  a  picture  on  which  other  ex- 
hibitors have  lost,  or  will  lose. 

*  *  * 

nrO  see  the  picture  as  the  exhibitor  would  see  it  if  he  were 
there — this  is  the  whole  duty  of  the  trade  reviewer  in 
the  projection  room;  this  is  and  always  has  been  the  re- 
viewing policy  of  Motion  Picture  News. 


Stage  Stars  in  Pictures 

""PHE  dramatic  critic  of  a  New  York  daily,  who  is  quite 
distinct  from  his  New  York  confreres  in  that  he  evi- 
dently studies  pictures  while  he  also  criticizes  them,  makes 
a  pertinent  observation. 

Why,  he  asks,  do  not  some  eminent  stage  stars^  who 
appear  in  pictures  perfect  themselves  in  photoplay  technic? 

The  query  is  a  timely  one. 

The  answer  undoubtedly  is  that  "some"  stars  not  only 
do  not  take  the  picture  seriously,  but  see  no  necessity 
for  so  doing.  The  attraction  the  picture  offers  is  the 
salary  given,  as  one  star  frankly  admitted  just  the  other 
day.  As  a  vehicle  for  the  expression  of  their  art,  they  do 
not  comprehend  and  hence  do  not  recognize  the  motion 
picture. 

*  *  * 

VY7HICH  state  of  affairs  is  not  only  unfortunate  for 
^  the  pictures  in  which  such  stars  appear,  but  also 
and  decidedly  unfortunate  for  the  stars  themselves.  The 
picture,  it  would  seem,  can  stand  the  results  of  this 
strange  lack  of  understanding  far  better  than  the  stars  who 
are  guilty  of  it. 

A  noted  prima  donna  recently  scored  a  dramatic  triumph 
in  a  picture.  Her  acting  is  splendid  and  the  whole  reason 
for  her  success  is  summed  up  in  her  own  sincere  statement, 
that  she  found  in  motion  photography  a  freer,  better 
medium  of  expression  than  the  operatic  stage.  She  acts 
because  she  knows  and  feels  her  medium. 

The  consequences  of  this  understanding  of  and  de- 
votion to  her  work  in  pictures  are  not  only  contributory  to 
motion  picture  art,  but.  and  in  a  marked  degree,  to  the 
prima  donna's  owm  reputation  and  popularity. 

Wherein  lies  a  lesson  for  "some""  stars  who  appear — not 
to  their  own  best  credit — in  motion  pictures. 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


November  6,  1915.  MOTIONPICTURENEWS  43 

Kansas  Will  Present  Solid  Front  Against  Censorship 

As  Outcome  of  the  State  Convention  Held  in  Pittsburg  on  October  18-19,  Exchange  Men  and  Exhibitors  Form  the 
Amusement  Association  of  Kansas,  Which  Will  Take  the  Active  Work  of  Fighting  for  Saner 
Censor  Laws  from  the   Shoulders   of  the  League 


special  to  Motion  Picture  NsN'fe 

Kansas  Citj',  Oct.  26. 

THE  Amusement  Association  of  Kansas, 
an  organization  of  exhibitors  and 
exchange  men,  was  the  outcome  of 
the  convention  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors League  of  America,  Kansas  Branch, 
and  the  Film  Exchange  Men's  Association 
of  Kansas  City,  that  was  held  in  Pittsburg, 
Kansas,  on  October  18  and  19. 

This  new  association  will  take  the  active 
v/ork  from  the  shoulders  of  the  league  and 
the  exchange  men's  association  in  their  fight 
against  unfair  censorship  that  is  now  being 
enforced  in  the  Western  state.  The  plans 
for  it  were  worked  out  by  big  men  who 
have  been  against  the  censorship  law  as  it 
is  practiced  here. 

It  has  been  said  that  the  Kansas  exhibitors 
have  been  lax  and  that  it  was  a  hard  matter 
to  get  them  to  attend  a  convention,  but  this 
time  they  turned  out  in  full  force,  and  along 
with  the  assistance  of  the  exchange  men  of 
Kansas  City  that  went  in  a  body,  the  new 
association  was  formed. 

It  went  with  a  vim  when  it  was  mentioned 
that  the  two  organizations  should  combine 
in  their  efforts  to  secure  a  saner  censorship 
in  the  state  of  Kansas,  where  conditions 
have  reached  an  almost  intolerable  condi- 
tion in  the  way  of  expenses  for  the  censor- 
ing of  pictures  for  exhibition  in  that  state. 
It  was  pointed  out  by  one  of  the  exhibitors 
that  his  tax,  in  which  was  included  the  cost 
of  censoring,  averaged  about  40  per  cent,  on 
his  investment.  It  is  conditions  like  these 
that  will  have  to  be  overcome,  and  it  is  the 
object  of  the  new  organization  to  overcome 
them. 

At  an  open  meeting  the  first  day  of  the 
convention  it  was  suggested  that  a  commit- 
tee be  appointed  from  those  who  were  pres- 
ent to  devise  ways  and  means  of  getting  the 
exhibitors  and  exchange  men  together  for 
the  purpose  of  combating  the  censorship 
law  in  its  present  form. 

Committee  Appointed 

A  committee  composed  of  E.  R.  Pearson, 
Kansas  City  manager  of  V-L-S-E;  Charles 
Harden,  Fox  Film  Corporation's  manager 
in  Kansas  City ;  Ross  C.  Cropper,  manager 
of  the  Universal  Film  and  Supply  Company 
of  Kansas  City;  P.  J.  Concannon,  an  ex- 
hibitor from  Emporia ;  Fred  Savage,  an  ex- 
hibitor from  Hutchinson,  and  W.  M.  Wil- 
leys,  an  exhibitor  from  Mulberry,  took  this 
in  hand  and  reported  later  in  the  day  with 
a  copy  of  resolutions,  which  were  submitted 
to  the  Exhibitors  League. 

At  a  night  meeting  the  league  adopted 
them  with  a  few  minor  changes  which  were 
agreeable  to  all  concerned. 

The  constitution  and  by-laws  that  were 
adopted  follow : 

Whereas,  The  enactment  and  enforcement  of 
hostile,  burdensome.  un-American  and  intolerable 
censorship  laws  as  relating  to  the  exhibition  of 
motion  pictures  in  the  state  of  Kansas  has  brought 
about  a  condition  which  threatens  the  stability  and 
prosperity  of   the  industry;  and 

Whereas.  In  the  administration  of  the  laws  the 
exhibitors  have  met  with  what  seems  to  them  an 


unreasonably  strict,  prejudicial  interpretation  there- 
of,  now  therefore 

Be  it  resolved.  That  the  members  of  the  Motion 
Picture  Exhibitors  League,  Kansas  Branch,  in  cou- 
vention  assembled,  on  this  eighteenth  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1915,  at  Pittsburg,  Kansas,  in  recognition  of 
the  paramount  importance  of  securing  an  abatement 
of  these  conditions,  does  hereby  pledge  its  mem- 
bership to  the  support  of  an  organization  to  be 
known  as  the  Amusement  Association  of  Kansas  and 
to  have  for  the  purpose  of  its  existence  general  pro- 
tection of  tile  amusement  interests  against  any  and 
all  impositions  of  whatever  nature,  as  well  as  the 
improvement  and  upbuilding  thereof  in  all  matters, 
and  to  bring  into  close  bonds  of  fellowship  all  and 
sundry  interests  directly  or  indirectly  concerned ; 
and 

Be  it  resolved,  That  the  Motion  Picture  Exhib- 
itors League,  Kansas  Branch,  through  its  executive 
committee  and  members,  urgently  admonish  all  to 
whom  the  privilege  of  membership  has  been  ex- 
tended to  avail  themselves  thereof,  sincere  in  the 
belief  and  firm  in  the  conviction  that  by  this  means 
may  be  met  and  mastered  the  intolerable  conditions 
that  now  exist. 

Declaration  of  Principles 

First. — We  favor  in  every  branch  and  department 
of  the  business  of  public  amusement  a  policy  of 
clean,  honorable,  honest  and  ethical  business  prac- 
tice and  in  fair  dealing  in  all  relations  with  the 
public  and  with  each  other. 

Second. — We  utterly  condemn  the  exhibition  at 
any  place  at  any  time  of  any  lewd,  indecent,  sug- 
gestive or  immoral  play,  act,  performance  or  mo- 
tion picture  film,  and  pledge  this  association  and 
its  membership  to  the  active  and  energetic  sup- 
pression of  any  such  play,  act,  performance  or  mo- 
tion  picture  film. 

Third. — This  association  stands  pledged  and  com- 
mitted to  a  constant  effort  to  improve  and  upbuild 
the  quality  of  the  public  exhibitions  given  by  'its 
membership  and  the  places  in  which  they  are  held 
or  given. 

Fourth. — We  favor  protecting  our  membership 
against  fraudulent  action  or  practice,  against  im- 
postors and  impositions  of  whatever  nature. 

The  Constitution 

The  objects  and  purposes  of  this  association  shall 
be  to  bring  together  in  close  bonds  of  association 
all  persons  interested  in  the  business  of  public 
amusement  in  the  state  of  Kansas  and  to  foster  and 
develop  social  and  commercial  relations  between 
them  and  to  protect  its  membership  against  fraud 
or  unfair  practices  of  any  nature,  regardless  of  by 
whom  or  what  interest  attempted,  and  to  develop 
and  upbuild  the  business  of  public  amusement  in 
accordance  with  the  declaration  and  principles 
which  appear  above  and  to  which  this  association 
is  committed. 

Its  membership  shall  consist  of  owners,  proprie- 
tors, stockholders,  lessees,  managers,  partners,  and 
employes  in  or  of  theatres  of  all  classes,  film  ex- 
changes, film  or  vaudeville  booking  agencies,  scenic 
studios,  motion  picture  theatre  supply  concerns, 
theatrical  seating  concerns,  baseball,  summer  park 
and  airdome  enterprises  and  kindred  and  allied 
concerns  and  others  having  a  financial  interest  in 
the  business  of  public  amusement  subject  to  the 
action  of  the  membership  committee. 

The  convention  was  a  huge  success  in 
every  way.  It  was  predicted  by  some  be- 
fore the  date  set  for  the  meeting  that  it 
would  be  next  to  impossible  to  get  the  ex- 
hibitors to  attend.  But  they  came  from  all 
parts  of  the  state  and  were  well  repaid  for 
attending.  All  were  enthusiastic  about  the 
meeting  and  all  were  up  in  arms  about  the 
huge  censorship  tax  that  they  are  compelled 
to  pay. 

The  general  concensus  of  opinion  was  not 
to  try  to  have  the  law  repealed  in  its  en- 
tirety, but  to  have  it  amended  in  such  a  way 
that  it  would  not  work  such  a  hardship  upon 
the  exhibitors  and  exchanges.  Several  of 
the  prominent  men  in  the  convention  were 
in  favor  of  this,  while  some  of  the  most 
rabid  were  in  favor  of  an  attempt  to  repeal 
the  law  in  its  entirety.  The  question  of 
how  to  eliminate  the  obstruction  will  be 
worked  out  later. 

The  second  day  of  the  convention  the 
Rev.  Festus  Foster,   one   of   the  censors. 


turned  up  and  came  in  and  talked  to  tlie 
exchange  men  and  exhibitors.  He  said  that 
he  himself  was  not  in  favor  of  the  high  tax 
that  the  moving  picture  exhibitors  were 
compelled  to  pay  for  the  censoring  of  their 
films,  but  that  he  was  in  favor  of  censorship. 
He  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  law  could  be 
amended  and  that  he  thought  the  tax  should 
be  just  enough  to  pay  the  cost  of  such  cen- 
soring. 

Kansas  President  Speaks 

Another  speaker  prominent  among  the  ex- 
hibitors was  W.  B.  Moore,  president  of  the 
Motion  Picture  Exhibitors  League,  Kansas 
Branch.  He  operates  a  picture  show  in  the 
state,  and  his  taxes  amount  to  about  forty 
per  cent,  on  his  investment. 

Practically  everyone  of  the  two  hundred 
present  had  something  to  say  about  cen- 
sorship. 

E.  C.  Mills,  who  has  fought  censorship 
and  Sunday  closing  in  Oklahoma  and  Texas, 
attended  the  convention  as  a  representative 
of  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  and  no 
amount  of  praise  will  repay  him  for  his 
invaluable  service. 

The  officers  of  the  new  association  elected 
to  serve  for  the  coming  year  are :  Carl 
Mensing,  of  Leavenworth,  president;  W.  H. 
Willey,  of  Mulberry,  vice-president ;  E.  H. 
Meyn,  of  Kansas  City,  Kansas,  treasurer; 
and  J.  E.  Poland,  of  Motion  Picture  News, 
secretary. 

The  executive  committee  is  composed  of 
E.  R.  Pearson,  V-L-S-E  manager  in  Kansas 
City,  chairman ;  Harry  Rogers,  of  Marion, 
secretary;  Stanley  Chambers,  of  Hutchin- 
son ;  Lee  Gunnison,  of  Atchinson,  and  Chas. 
W.  Harden,  Fox  Film  Corporation's  man- 
ager in  Kansas  City. 
Exchanges  Represented 

The  following  are  the  exchanges  and  the 
representatives  they  had  at  the  conevntion  : 
V-L-S-E,  E.  R.  Pearson,  L.  J.  Scott  and  H. 
E.  Stabler;  Mutual  Film  Corporation,  F.  L. 
Kiltz,  E.  C.  Mills,  William  Warner  and 
L.  B.  Douglas ;  Fox  Film  Corporation, 
Chas.  W.  Harden,  E.  H.  Wachter,  and 
W.  B.  Emrich  ;  Universal  Film  and  Supply 
Company,  R.  C.  Cropper  and  C.  W.  Potter ; 
World  Film  Corporation,  T.  Y.  Henry; 
Picture  Playhouse  Film  Company,  Roy  W. 
J.  Bettis ;  Metro  Pictures  Service,  ^I.  E. 
Williams  and  C.  A.  Jones ;  United  Photo 
Plays,  C.  S.  Kelso ;  Kansas  City  Feature 
Film  Company,  D.  O.  Reese  and  R.  M. 
Abbey ;  Geo.  Kleine,  John  Hardin  and  W. 

E.  Condell ;  Triangle  Film  Corporation,  J. 
M.  Cummings;  Pathe  exchange,  C.  S.  Ed- 
wards, Jr.,  and  H.  E.  Jameyson ;  Wichita 
Film  and  Supply  Company,  E.  G.  Olson, 

F.  T.  Graham  and  F.  C.  Fourney. 


VAN  DYKE  BROOKE  PRODUCING  TWO- 
PART  DRAMA  FOR  VITAGRAPH 

Maurice  Costello,  Leah  Baird  and  Van 
Dyke  Brooke  are  at  work  on  the  \'itagraph 
production  of  "A  Question  of  Right  or 
Wrong."  a  two-part  drama,  written  and 
being  produced  by  Mr.  Brooke. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    No,  18, 


Paramount  and  K.  and  E.  in  $2,000,000  Company 

W.  W.  Hodkinson,  in  Joining  Hands  with  the  Celebrated  Theatrical  Producing  Firm, 
Extends  His  Service  to  Cities  Not  Yet  Reached  by  Film  Corporation 


THE  Paramount  Pictures  Corporation 
has  signed  contracts  with  Klaw  and 
Erlanger  by  the  terms  of  which  a  new 
$2,000,000  corporation,  to  be  known  as  the 
Paramount-Kiaw  and  Erlanger  Company, 
has  been  formed. 

The  executive  board  of  the  new  corpora- 
tion will  consist  of  W.  W.  Hodkinson, 
president  of  the  Paramount  Pictures  Cor- 
])oration ;  Adolph  Zukor,  president  of  the 
Famous  Players  Film  Company ;  Samuel 
Goldfish,  treasurer  and  general  manager  of 
the  Jesse  Lasky  Feature  Play  Company; 
Marc  Klaw,  Abraham  L.  Erlanger  and  Ray- 
mond Pawley,  treasurer  of  the  Paramount 
Pictures  Corporation. 

An  associate  board  of  directors  will  be 
announced  later. 

The  purpose  of  the  new  organization 
will  be  to  extend  Paramount  service  to 
cities  which  it  has  not  yet  reached,  and  to 
procure  suitable  theatres  in  these  cities  for 
the  showing  of  Paramount  pictures. 

At  its  formation  as  the  first  feature  pro- 
gram company  in  the  motion  picture  busi- 
ness, a  year  and  a  half  ago,  the  Paramount 
Pictures  Corporation  instituted  the  con- 
tinuous service  system  of  booking  photo- 
plays, which  has  been  used  successfully  in 
the  legitimate  theatre  by  Klaw  and  Er- 
langer, and  it  was  therefore  natural  that 
these  two  interests  should  form  an  alli- 
ance. 

It  was  announced  that  it  is  not  the  in- 
tention of  this  new  organization  to  fight 
anyone,  or  to  usurp  the  place  of  anyone. 
It  is  merely  to  extend  the  service  of  a  com- 
panj-  which  already  exists,  and  to  better 
generally  the  exhibition  of  motion  pictures 
throughout  the  country;  it  will  not  inter- 
fere with  the  present  interests  of  the  Para- 
mount Pictures  Corporation  or  its  feature- 
producing  companies,  the  Famous  Players 
Film  Company,  Jesse  L.  Lasky  Feature  Play 
Company,  Oliver  Morosco  and  Pallas  Pic- 
tures, Inc.,  on  the  oile  hand,  or  Klaw  and 
Erlanger  on  the  other — which  means  that 
the  present  relations  of  the  theatres  book- 
ing the  service  of  either  of  these  organiza- 
tions will  not  be  disturbed. 

Launching  the  first  feature  program  in 
the  face  of  terrific  odds,  instituting  policies 
which  were  unheard  of  in  the  motion  pic- 
ture business,  Paramount  proved  that  its 
ideas  were  correct.  Today,  bigger  and  bet- 
ter theatres,  such  as  the  Strand  in  New 
York,'have  sprung  up  throughout  the  coun- 
try, and  in  every  instance  the  backbone  of 
their  program  is  Paramount  pictures.  Au- 
tomobiles are  now  seen  at  motion  picture 
theatres,  and  people  in  evening  dress  at- 
tend. 

Longer  runs  and  rebookings,  with  tiic 
added  value  of  national  advertising,  have 
proved  successful — ideas  which  had  their 
conception  in  the  mind  of  W.  W.  Hodkin- 
son, and  their  fulfillment  in  the  operations 
of  the  Paramount  Pictures  Corporation. 

Thought  was  evinced  in  every  dealing  of 
the  big  company — everything  was  planned 
ahead.  The  largest  advertising  campaign 
ever  launched  in  the  motion  picture  busi- 
ness was  not  begun  without  nearly  a  year 
of  investigation  on  the  part  of  Howard  E. 
Spauldinu. 


It  was  supplemented  by  publicity  and  ad- 
vertising helps  to  the  exhibitor. 

Step  by  step  Paramount  has  spread  its 
gospel  throughout  the  country— higher 
prices,  better  theatres,  better  patrons  and 
better  music. 

The  alliance  of  two  such  companies  was 
bound  to  come  in  the  natural  sequence  of 
events.  It  marks,  apparently,  the  signing 
of  the  peace  pact  between  the  silent  and 
spoken  drama. 


UNIVERSAL  BEAUTIES  IN  PALACE 
THEATRE  FASHION  SHOW 

Five  beauties  from  the  Universal  Film 
Manufacturing  Company  appeared  in  the 
Palace  theatre's  Fall  Fashion  show  as  a 
part  of  the  $1,000,000  display  of  gems, 
gowns,  furs,  lingerie,  hats,  feathers,  sport 
clothes  and  boots  from  the  supreme  cre- 
ative artists  in  style. 

The  Universal  beauties  were  Violet 
Mersereau,  Rosemary  Theby,  Dorothy 
Phillips,  Betty  Gray  and  Edna  Hunter. 
Their  gowns  were  designed  by  Harry  Col- 
lins, costumer  of  29  West  Thirty-eighth 
street.  New  York  City. 


Mutual  Companies  Increasing  Production  Activity 

Gaumont,  Thanhouser  and  American  Film  Make  Preparations  to  Meet  Demand  for  More 
Subjects — "Seventh  Noon,"  a  Masterpicture,  for  Release  November  7 


THE  announcement  of  extensive  plans 
for  increased  activity  in  various  Mu- 
tual Film  Corporation  producing  companies 
comes  from  the  home  office  simultaneously 
with  that  of  a  number  of  unusual  photo- 
dramas,  which  will  appear  in  the  near  fu- 
ture on  the  Mutual  program.  Its  new  pro- 
gram is  now  practically  complete,  save  for 
the  final  arrangements  concerning  Vogue 
comedies,  forthcoming  in  a  few  days. 


GAUMONT  DIBECTOHS  BEFOEE  SAILING  FOR 
FLORIDA.  (TOP  ROW,  LEFT  TO  RIGHT)  FRITZ 
ORLAMOND,  TECHNICAL  DIRECTOR;  WM.  F. 
HADDOCK,  RICHARD  GAREICK.  EDWIN  MID- 
DLETON,  DIRECTORS.  i  LO'WXE  LINE  WM. 
CHAMERLAIN,  ALLAN  ROBINSON.  ASSISTANT 
DIRECTORS 

Announcement  of  the  most  recently  per- 
fected plan  of  changes  in  equipment  and 
working  arrangements  comes  from  the 
Gaumont  studio  at  Flushing,  L.  I.  In  or- 
der to  handle  its  four  Mutual  brands — the 
tri-weekly  Rialto  Star  Features,  in  which 
a  well-known  Broadway  player  has  the 
leading  role ;  the  weekly  Casino  Star  Com- 
edy, split-reel  scenic  and  animated  comic; 
"See  America  First"  and  "Keeping  Up  with 
the  Joneses,"  and  the  "Mutual  News  Week- 
ly," the  Gaumont  company  will  open  up  a 
winter  studio  in  South  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Details  were  given  in  last  week's  Motion 
Picture  News. 

Thirty  thousand  dollars  is  being  expend- 
ed by  the  Thanhouser  company  for  a  glass 
studio  at  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  as  also  an- 
nounced in  Motion  Picture  News  last 
week,  which  will  be  ready  for  occupation 
on  December  1.  At  that  time  some  of  the 
New  Rochelle  contingency  will  go  South, 


where  the  beautiful  scenery  of  Florida,  the 
West  Indies  and  the  Bermudas  will  be 
used  as  the  setting  for  one  and  multiple- 
reel  drama  and  comedy  for  the  Mutual. 

Simultaneously,  two  companies  will  go 
to  the  Hudson  Bay  country  to  produce 
dramas  of  life  in  the  frozen  North.  Ac- 
tivities will  by  no  means  be  slackened  in 
New  Rochelle.  No  changes  will  be  made 
at  present  in  the  Thanhouser's  output  of 
Mutual  pictures — the  two  Falstaff  come- 
dies, one  multiple  reel  and  one  part  drama, 
of  weekly  release,  a  bi-weekly  Than-o-play 
multiple  reel  production,  and  an  occasional 
Masterpicture. 

While  the  American  Film  Corporation 
announces  no  important  immediate  changes 
in  production  or  equipment,  it  is  sending 
to  the  Mutual  program  of  November  11. 
as  a  Masterpicture,  "The  End  of  the  Road," 
a  picturization  of  that  play  by  H.  Grattan 
Donnelly,  which  first  went  to  the  public 
under  the  title  of  "Carolina."  May  Allison 
and  Harold  Lockwood  play  in  this  Master- 
picture. 

The  most  recent  addition  to  the  David 
Horsley  players,  announcement  has  just 
come,  is  Irving  Cummings,  the  leading 
man  of  the  Mutual's  serial,  "The  Diamond 
from  the  Sky." 

Another  Masterpicture  which  will  be  re- 
leased as  a  special  in  the  Mutual  program 
on  November  7,  is  "The  Seventh  Noon,"  in 
which  Ernest  Glendenning,  the  popular 
young  actor,  plays  the  leading  role.  "The 
Seventh  Noon"  was  originally  a  book  fmm 
the  pen  of  Frederick  Orin  Bartlett. 


STEEN  GETS  FRANCHISE  FOR  ONE 
REEL  COMEDY  ON  ASSOCIATED 

A.  G.  Steen,  president  of  the  Steen  Film 
Producing  Company,  Philadelphia,  has  been 
in  New  York  negotiating  for  a  franchise 
with  the  Associated,  and  after  a  thorough 
investigation  has  finally  closed  a  deal  for  a 
franchise  of  a  one-reel  comedy  weekly. 

Mr.  Steen  originall)'  started  the  Steen 
Feature  Film  Exchange  in  Baltimore,  ten 
years  ago,  and  afterwards  purchased  several 
theatres,  which  he  operated  successfully. 
He  was  the  manager  of  the  Universal  Film 
Manufacturing  Co.  He  has  an  interest  in 
the  Tri-State  Feature  Film  Co.  of  Phila- 
delphia and  Baltimore,  and  was  one  of  tin. 
prime  movers  in  the  formation  of  the  Kri- 
terion,  and  owner  of  the  rights  for  that 
program  for  Eastern  Pennsylvania. 


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November  6,  1915.  MOTIONPICTURENEWS  45 

Rothapfel  Meets  Capital  City  Film  Men  on  His  Tour 

Gathering  Is  Second  in  the  Countrywide  Trip  of  Master-Manager  Under  Auspices  of  the  Mutual,  and  Is  Presided 
Over  by  B.  C.  Cunningham,  of  the  Company's  Exchange  in  Washington,  D.  C. — Hotel  Raleigh  Is  Scene 
of  Meeting,  Where  in  the  Oak  Room,  the  Guests  Listen  to  Talk  on  Exhibitor  Management 


special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Washington,  D.  C,  Oct.  26. 

THE  meeting  of  S.  L.  Rothapfel  with 
the  exhibitors  and  exchangemen  of 
the  National  Capital,  marked  a  sig- 
nificant unity  of  the  motion  picture  and 
the  press,  which  promises  not  only  to 
strengthen  this  co-operation  in  Washing- 
ton, but  will  be  felt  elsewhere. 

The  gathering  was  the  second  of  the 
series  known  as  the  Rothapfel-Mutual  tour, 
given  under  the  auspices  of  the  local 
Mutual  film  exchange,  of  which  B.  C. 
Cunningham  is  manager.  The  oak  parlor 
of  the  Raleigh  hotel  was  thrown  open  to 
the  film  men,  who  gathered  informally, 
smoked  and  were  served  a  buffet  repast. 

This  was  not  merely  for  the  devotees 
of  the  Mutual  program  or  features,  nor  to 
exploit  in  any  way  the  films  of  these  man- 
ufactures, which  was  demonstrated  by  the 
presence  of  exchangemen  and  exhibitors 
showing  films  of  all  programs.  There  was 
a  spirit  of  fellowship  which  possibly  no 
other  film  man  could  have  created  except 
Mr.  Rothapfel,  who  is  known  in  every 
corner  of  the  country  for  his  success. 

The  significance  of  the  unity  of  the  press 
and  pictures  was  demonstrated  at  the  off- 
set when  the  speaker  of  the  evening  was 
introduced,  not  by  someone  of  the  Mutual 
ofiice,  nor  yet  by  an  exhibitor,  but  by  the 
only  motion  picture  editor  of  the  city, 
Gardner  Mack,  of  the  Times.  By  curious 
coincidence  Mr.  Mack  has  had  the  oppor- 
tunity of  watching  the  career  of  Mr. 
Rothapfel,  from  the  small  theatre  to  the 
New  York  Strand,  and  was  therefore  well 
fitted  to  present  him  to  his  exhibitor  as- 
sociates. 

Theatres  Should  Be  Distinctive 

"Individuality,"  said  Mr.  Rothapfel,  "is 
the  keynote  of  success.  "Make  your  the- 
atre and  your  pictures,  and  your  music,  dif- 
ferent from  the  other  fellow.  Don't  enter 
the  exhibitor's  field  with  the  idea  of  com- 
petition and  beating  the  other  fellow  down 
the  street  out.  Spend  your  time  attending 
to  your  own  affairs,  and  let  the  other  fel- 
low attend  to  his. 

"There  are  many  things  that  make  for 
the  success  of  a  picture  or  a  theatre,  and 
one  of  the  chief  things  to  accomplish  is  to 
have  faith  in  yourself,  and  make  your  peo- 
ple have  faith  in  you.  The  old  theory  of 
giving  the  public  what  it  wants,  and  the 
Barnum  adage  of  "the  public  wants  to  be 
fooled,"  are  out-of-date  now. 

"Put  your  show  above  the  public,"  he 
accentuated.  "Make  the  public  look  up  to 
you,  and  make  the  public  want  what  you 
want  to  give  them.  That's  the  road  to 
success.  And  the  public  is  not  going  to 
be  fooled,  either.  It  is  a  wise  public  to- 
day ;  not  the  public  Barnum  was  dealing 
with,  and  you  must  be  wiser  than  your 
public." 

Mr.  Rothapfel  touched  upon  the  chief 
point  in  the  presentation  of  the  picture,  of 
the  lights,  the  music,  the  stage  decorations 


and  minor  details.  "I  believe  in  lights,"  he 
reminded  his  hearers,  "and  I  believe  in 
music,  and  these  can  be  combined  to  make 
wonderful  effects  upon  your  audiences. 
More  than  this,  I  believe  in  the  psycholog- 
ical point,  which  can  win  against  the  great- 
est odds." 

The  speaker  gave  some  prophecies  of  the 
film  industry  which  interested  his  hearers. 
He  predicted  the  death  of  the  so-called 
multi-reel  features,  and  the  return  to  three 
reels  of  good,  meaty  stories,  and  an  in- 
creased favor  of  the  educational  picture 
if  properly  presented.  He  predicted  the 
open  market  and  declared  himself  ready  to 
forward  this  spirit. 

Hope  in  Board  of  Trade 

He  dwelt  upon  the  significance  of  the 
Motion  Picture  National  Board  of  Trade, 
and  of  the  things  it  had  accomplished  in 
its  short  life.  He  touched  upon  censor- 
ship, which  he  denounced  emphatically, 
and  he  urged  the  co-operation  of  exhib- 
itors and  all  interested  in  the  industry  and 
the  local  press  in  every  city. 

Tom  Moore,  the  pioneer  exhibitor  of 
Washington,  was  called  upon  to  make  a 
few  remarks.  He  said  that  Mr.  Rothapfel 
had  started  so  many  new  ideas  working 
as  to  what  he  could  do  in  his  several  the- 
atres that  he  did  not  want  to  interrupt 
them.  A.  Brylawski,  of  the  Brylawski 
chain  of  theatres,  was  also  called  upon  to 
speak,  as  was  H.  C.  Gove,  of  the  Columbia 
Photograph  Company.  The  meeting 
closed  with  individual  discourses  in  a 
heart-to-heart  fashion. 

Gardner  Mack,  of  the  Times,  as  chair- 
man was  a  moving  spirit  during  the  eve- 


Special  to  Motion  Picture  News. 

Philadelphia,  Oct.  26. 

THE  speech  of  S.  L.  Rothapfel  at  the 
banquet  engineered  by  the  manager  of 
the  Mutual  Exchange  in  Philadelphia,  C.  G. 
Powell,  was  an  inspiration  to  every  exhibit- 
or. The  short  notice  of  the  affair  prevent- 
ed many  from  attending,  but  those  who 
were  present  were  amply  repaid.  Mr. 
Rothapfel  is  no  orator  in  the  strict  sense 
of  the  term,  but  he  has  the  quality  which 
made  his  heart  to  heart  talk  more  interest- 
ing than  the  finest  outburst  of  a  trained 
speaker. 

As  man  to  man  he  told  of  his  own  ex- 
perience and  encouraged  his  audience  to 
believe  that  each  one  of  them  could  have, 
if  not  a  Strand,  at  least  a  better  and  more 
profitable  theatre  than  he  is  now  running. 
Mr.  Rothapfel  prophesied  a  great  change 
in  the  motion  picture  business  in  the  next 
year  or  two. 

He  foresees  the  return  of  shorter  photo 
plays  as  good  and  better  than  the  long  fea- 
tures so  eagerly  sought  after  at  present. 
An  open  market  and  fair  competition  was 


ning  introducing  speakers,  suggesting 
topics  of  discussion,  and  creating  an  in- 
formality that  resulted  in  many  questions 
being  asked  and  solved  by  this  man  of 
success. 

Among  those  present  were :  B.  C.  Cun- 
ningham, manager  of  the  Mutual  Film 
Exchange;  T.  C.  Brainard,  manager  of  the 
Herald  and  general  manager  of  Harper 
Bros.;  J.  F.  McDonald  and  H.  G.  Bier- 
man,  of  the  Mutual ;  Geo.  M.  Mann,  of  the 
Paramount  Exchange;  Gardner  Mack, 
photoplay  and  dramatic  editor  of  the 
Washington  Times;  Ralph  Graves,  dra- 
matic editor  of  the  Washington  Post;  C. 
Plunkett,  manager  of  the  Plaza;  J.  Wrenn, 
manager  of  the  Strand ;  Arthur  Robb, 
manager  of  the  Garden;  Tom  Moore,  pres- 
ident of  Moore's  Enterprises ;  Catherine 
Lay  Howe ;  J.  A.  Cunningham,  of  Balti- 
more ;  Victor  Abbey,  of  the  North  Amer- 
ican Film  Corporation ;  A.  Brylawski,  of 
the  Brylawski  Enterprises ;  Harry  Wolfe, 
of  the  Cosmos ;  A.  B.  Spellbring,  manager 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Operators'  Union; 
Silas  Bent,  special  press  representative  of 
the  Rothapfel-Mutual  tour;  J.  G.  Bodine, 
manager  of  the  Empire ;  W.  B.  Peckham, 
of  the  Southern  Railway;  C.  W.  Michael, 
of  the  Baltimore  American;  G.  M.  Mc- 
Donald, manager  of  the  Apollo ;  H.  H. 
Smith,  of  Baltimore;  H.  C.  Grove,  of  the 
Columbia  Phonograph  Company;  M.  Cos- 
tello,  of  the  American ;  W.  O.  Kolb,  presi- 
dent of  the  Empire  Theatre  Company,  and 
A.  J.  Eichelberger  and  F.  H.  Smith,  also 
officers  of  this  company ;  G.  C.  Schulz, 
manager  of  Penn  Gardens;  E.  B.  McCurdy, 
of  Baltimore,  and  Willard  Howe,  of  Mo- 
tion Picture  News. 


strongly  urged  by  the  speaker.  While  giv- 
ing due  meed  of  praise  to  John  R.  Freuler, 
the  Mutual's  president,  who  conceived  this 
tour,  Mr.  Rothapfel  made  it  clear  that  his 
primary  object  in  undertaking  the  trip  was 
to  help  the  exhibitor. 

Ed.  J.  O'Keefe,  of  the  City  Square  the- 
atre, Atlantic  City,  acted  as  toastmaster. 
After  Mr.  Rothapfel  had  finished  his  talk, 
which  brought  out  as  his  salient  points  the 
advice  to  the  exhibitors  to  use  their  brains 
and  to  be  individual,  there  was  an  informal 
discussion,  several  exhibitors  being  called 
upon  for  short  talks. 

Jay  Emanuel,  of  the  Ridge;  M.  A.  Benn, 
of  the  A.  B.  C;  J.  Jeffries,  of  the  Rox- 
borough ;  H.  Stamper,  of  the  Tioga,  were 
the  speakers  and  voiced  the  problems  that 
confront  the  exhibitor  away  from  the  cen- 
tre of  the  big  city.  Mr.  Rothapfel  threshed 
out  each  problem  as  well  as  the  very  late 
hour  permitted,  and  made  a  definite  promise 
that  as  soon  as  this  tour  was  over,  he  would 
come  back  to  Philadelphia  on  "his  own 
hook"  and  personally  visit  these  theatres 
in  order  to  study  local  conditions  and  show 


Rothapfel,  at  Banquet  in  Philadelphia,  Predicts 
Return  to  Shorter  Plays  in  Next  Year  or  Two 


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Vol.  12.   No.  18. 


how  each  of  tlie  liouses  could  be  made 
"different"  and  incidentally  bring  in  a  great- 
er revenue  than,  at  present. 

Owing  to  the  eagerness  to  have  as  much 
of  Mr.  Rothapfe!  as  possible,  the  proposed 
picture  show  was  dispensed  with. 

Amongst  those  present  at  the  banquet 
held  at  the  Continental  Hotel,  were :  Leroy 
B.  Reinert,  of  the  Cozy  and  Savoy  theatres, 
Reading,  Pa. ;  J.  W.  Pope,  of  the  Continent- 
al E.xchange ;  Herbert  Givens,  of  Para- 
mount :  J.  Battersby,  of  the  Central  Market 
Street  Company ;  F.  Howard,  of  the  Tioga ; 
J.  Dougherty,  of  the  Bijou;  Silas  Bent,  of 
the  Mutual  puljlicity  staff ;  Steve  Talbott, 
of  the  Billboard:  F.  Armato,  of  the  Eve- 
ning Telegraph ;  E.  Plow,  of  the  Evening 
Ledger:  C.  Goldstone,  of  the  Rittenhouse, 
and  Irene  Page  Solomon,  of  Motion  Pic- 
ture News.  Irene  Page  Solomon. 


L-KO  APPOINTS  KINGSBURY  AS 
SPECIAL  REPRESENTATIVE 

Henry  "Pathe"  Lehrman,  managing  di- 
rector of  the  L-Ko  Motion  Picture  Com- 
pany, of  Hollywood,  Cal.,  who  has  been 
paying  New  York  City  an  extensive  visit 
m  the  interests  of  his  Billie  Ritchie  L-Ko 
comedies,  secured  while  here  the  services 
of  Stanley  C.  Kingsbury  to  act  as  his 
special  representative.  Mr.  Kingsbury  has 
been  identified  with  the  film  industry  for 
some  years  past,  first  entering  the  business 
as  a  showman,  having  owned  and  oper- 
ated one  of  the  first  picture  houses  in  Syra- 
cuse. Later  he  became  associated  with  the 
Warner's  Features,  being  connected  with 
the  Buffalo  ofiice,  from  where  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  managership  of  their  interests 
in  the  Dominion  of  Canada  with  offices  at 
Toronto. 

After  serving  for  some  time  in  that  ca- 
pacity he  associated  himself  with  the  Fa- 
mous Players  Film  Service,  Ltd.,  with 
whom  he  became  widely  known  in  film  cir- 
cles. 

Upon  his  return  to  the  States  Mr.  Kings- 
bury again  became  connected  with  the 
Warner's  interests  which  later  became  the 
United  Film  Company. 

When  Mr.  Lehrman  came  to  New  Y'ork 
and  desired  the  services  of  a  man  of  wide 
experience  and  extensive  acquaintance  in 
the  motion  picture  business,  he  sought  Mr. 
Kingsbury  and  after  drawing  up  an  agree- 
ment satisfactory  to  both  parties,  appointed 
him  special  representative  of  the  L-Ko  Mo- 
tion Picture  Company. 


L 


Cameraman  Thompson  Off  to  War  for  Paramount 

Expert  Photographer,  Within  Boundaries  of  All  Countries  at  War  at  Various  Times  and 
Under  Fire  at  Retreat  from  Mons,  Leaves  New  York  for  .Athens 

FAYING  the  port  of  New  York  on  the        Since  exclusive  rights  to  the  films  he 

takes  have  been  secured  by  the  Paramount 
Pictures  Corporation,  Mr.  Thompson  will 
be  one  of  the  many  camera-correspondents 
who  will  contribute  their  quota  to  the  Para- 
mount Newspictures. 

In  this  connection  he  said :  "Knowing 
the  standard  of  Paramount  Pictures  and 
having  been  taken  into  the  confidence  of 
W.  W.  Hodkinson  as  to  what  his  celluloid 
magazine  woijld  contain,  I  did  not  further 
consider  other  offers  that  I  had,  but  im- 
mediately closed  with  Walter  E.  Greene 
and  the  Paramount  Corporation." 

In  answer  to  a  question  as  to  minute  de- 
tails of  the  Newspicture  plan,  Mr.  Greene 
said,  when  seen :  "Paramount's  policy  has 
always  been  to  do  things  first  and  talk  about 
them  afterwards— if  at  all.  Suffice  it  to  say 
that  the  engagement  of  Mr.  Thompson  as 
one  of  the  war-correspondents — and  we  will 
have  others — is  only  indicative  of  our  de- 
termination to  make  these  films  worthy  to 
be  classed  with  other  productions  of  the 
Paramount  Program." 


liner  St.  Paul,  with  the  statement  that 
by  the  time  he  reaches  Athens,  Greece  will 
be  in  the  war,  Donald  C.  Thompson,  expert 
photographer  and  globe  trotter,  has  set  out 
for  the  Balkans  in  the  interest  of  two  or- 
ganizations of  utmost  importance  in  their 
particular  fields,  the  Paramount  Pictures 
Corporation  and  the  Leslie-Judge  Company. 

Since  the  advent  of  the  motion  picture, 
the  "camera-reporter"  has  become  more 
and  more  significant  among  the  world's 
news  gatherers.  This  26-year-old  Kansan 
was  one  of  the  first  to  realize  the  possibili- 
ties of  the  new  branch  of  the  industry.  At 
the  Baltimore  Democratic  Convention  three 
>ears  ago  he  took  his  first  flier  into  the 
films. 

The  result  was  such  that  he  added  a  mo- 
tion picture  camera  to  his  photographic 
,^tock  and  freelanced  to  such  good  purpose 
that  he  became  a  charter  member  in  the 
Unusual  Angle  Club  and  distinctly  welcome 
ni  the  offices  of  the  editors. 

.'\  confirmed  wanderer,  he  was  in  Canada 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  war  and,  securing  a 
permit  from  General  Hughes,  was  able  to 
obtain  exclusive  photographs  of  the  Cana- 
dian contingent.  Later  he  went  to  France 
on  a  freight  ship,  narrowly  escaping  de- 
struction when  a  careless  German  bomb 
just  m's^ed  the  tramp  steamer  on  which  he 
did  odd  jobs  for  his  passage,  since  mere 
money  meant  nothing  when  it  came  to  get- 
ting inside  the  lines. 

While  with  the  English  on  the  continent, 
Mr.  Thompson  took  some  of  the  most  re- 
markable pictures  of  the  entire  war.  For 
seven  days  and  nights  he  was  under  steady 
fire  at  the  retreat  from  Mons.  W^hen  asked 
whether  or  not  filming  the  battle  was  as 
dangerous  as  fighting  he  shrugged  his 
shoulders,  and  said :  "Yes,  I  suppose  it  is. 
but  if  you're  going  to  be  killed  you  will  be. 
so  why  worry?" 

At  London  he  acted  as  correspondent  for 
the  New  York  World,  and  later  joined  the 
Belgian  army.  He  has  been  at  one  time  or 
nnother  with  the  ^English,  French.  Belgians, 
Germans,  Turks.  Russians,  Serbians  and 
Bulgarians. 

Thus  he  has  had  a  unique  oppor- 
tunity to  study  the  methods  of  the  nations 
engaged  in  the  war. 


MAKING  PICTURES  TO   MUSIC  NEW 
ESSANAY  PLAN 

Music  with  pictures  is  the  innovation  in- 
troduced by  George  K.  Spoor  for  the  Es- 
sanay  Company.  Mr.  Spoor  conceived  the 
idea  of  making  pictures  to  music  when 
Poe's  "The  Raven"  was  being  produced  re- 
cently. 

"The  Raven"  is  an  emotional  photoplay 
so  full  of  big  moments  that  the  actors  had 
no  time  to  recover  from  one  before  they 
were  in  the  midst  of  another.  It  was  for 
this  lack  of  interlude  that  music  was  in- 
troduced to  keep  them  up  to  the  pitch. 
.\n  orchestra  will  be  used  at  the  studio 
from  now  on  as  a  result  of  the  success  of 
"The  Raven." 


NICKOLAUS  GOES  TO  COAST  IN 
EXECUTIVE  CAPACITY 

John  Nickolaus.  former  head  of  the  Uni- 
versal West  Coast  laboratory,  who  has 
been  in  the  East  for  the  past  year,  has  been 
again  sent  to  the  West  Coast,  where  he 
will  hold  an  executive  position  in  the  pho- 
tographic department. 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


November  6,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


47 


The  Press,  Press  Representative  and  the  Picture— IV 

Dailies  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  Adopt  Favorable  Policy  Toward  Pictures  and  Increase  Screen  Drama  News  Space  on 

Demand  of  Public,  Who  Spend  a  Million  Dollars   a  Year  in  Admissions  to  Photoplay  Theatres,  Which 

Form  85  Per  Cent,  of  Amusement  Places  in  That  City 

special  to  Motion  '^icture  News  show  local  conditions,  the  following  table  Records  show  that  enough  people  gather 

Newark,  N.  J.,  Oct.  25.  may  be  kept  in  mind:  at  the  various  performances  of  the  picture 

NEWSPAPERS  of  this  city  and  vicinity     Picture  houses                                       56  houses  during  the  course  of  the  day  to 

have   during   the   past   few   weeks     Vaudeville  houses                                   3  tlian  fill  them  at  least  once.  That 

adopted  a  policy  favorable  to  the     Legitimate  houses                                    3  means  more  than  30,000  persons  each  day 

producers  and  exhibitors  of  motion  pic-     Burlesque  houses                                    2  attend  motion  picture  theatres  in  the  city 

tures.   The  present  attitude  of  Newark  edi-     Houses  dark  at  present                            2  °*  Newark. 

tors  was  not  reached,  however,  until  facts  *  •    <-            u    ^    ■  u.                    .  Public  Pays  Million  a  Year 

,  -                  ,        ,          ,   .            .  lhat  is  to  say,  about  eightv-nve  per  cent.  „,                   .       ^    ,    .    .        .,,  , 

and  figures  were  brought  to  their  attention  ^^^^^^^^       ^^^^.^^^         ^^^.^^^^  The  average  price  of  admission  will  reach 

to  support  the  assertion  that  the  interest  photoplay.    But  the  number  of  houses  =^                     ^^'^^  ^^"^  cents,  making  the 

of  the  pub  he  in  motion  pictures  was  gen-  ^^^^^    ^             criterion,  because  play-  ^/"O""^  P^'^        ^he  pubhc  to  view 

era!  and  of  a  nature  that  demands  recog-  ^^^^^^                  ^.^^                           .^^^  ^^""'^'^  "^"^  T'! 

nition.  .            ^u-    u    ■    ■      ■       u  $3,000.    It  is  fair  to  assert  that  the  figures 

rr,             r            ,   ,       ....  Ihe  comparison  on  this  basis  is  given  be-  ,       ,        ^^nru^          ,  . 

Ihe  city  of  Newark  has  htty-six  picture  |q^- .  reach  at  least  $20,000  a  week,  or  more  than 

houses   with    a    seating   capacity    ranging  .   '  a  million  dollars  a  year. 

from  100  to  2,000.    Thirty-six  of  them  seat     P'ct"re  seats   30,000  i^^-j^  of  interest  displayed  by  news- 

15.492— an    average   of   about   430.     The     yr^^'V"^?,^^  ^^^^^                                 -'^^  papers  in  the  screen  drama  situation  in 

other  twenty  are  smaller  and  total  about     Vaudeville  seats    Newark  was  due  entirely  to  a  failure  on 

10.500   seating    capacity.     This    makes    a     Burlesque  seats                                    1.572  ^j^e  part  of  editors  and  news  writers  to 

grand  total  of  approximately  30,000  capac-     Seats  in  dark  theatres                        3,893  recognize  the  relation  of  the  public  to  the 

ity  for  all  the  motion  picture  theatres  in  In  other  words,  of  the  approximately  production  and  exhibition  of  motion  pic- 
Newark.    These  fifty-six  houses  show  mo-  47.000  seats  provided  for  Newark's  amuse-  tures. 

tion  picture  films  exclusively.  ment-loving  public  in  our  sixty-six  theatres  Splendid  co-operation  has  followed  the 

In  addition  to  these  fifty-six  houses  are  about  sixty  per  cent,  are  for  those  who  de-  pleasant  awakening, 

three  vaudeville  houses  where  motion  pic-  sire  to  see  photoplays.  F.  M.  Boyce,  Jr. 

tures  are  a  regular  and  important  feature   

of  the  daily  program    These  three  houses,  "PaStC-Pot  End  SHcarS,"   Seliff  Wccklv  PrCSS  NCWS, 

in  the  aggregate,  seat  o,223.  or  an  average  7  o                   ^  y 

of  1.741  each.    If  this  capacity  be  added  Right  Sort  Of  PubHcity 

to  that  of  the  theatres  which  show  photo-  \cTr-  or^ 

plays  exclusively— and  it  is  proper  to  do  "DASTE-POT    AND    SHE.\RS,"    the  items,  and  written  by  a  practical  newspaper 

so  it  will  be  seen  that  Newark  offers  an  Selig  weekly  press  news,  is  an  exam-  head  writer,  guide  the  editor  to  the  story 

opportunity  to  more  than  25,000  of  her  P'^  °^        '"'S'^*         °^  manufacturer  pub-  without  waste  of  time,  besides  furnishing 

population  to  view  the  photoplays  simul-  ''^!'^-^'-  suggestions  for  his  own  "heads."  They  also 

taneouslv.  arrangement,  in  the  kind  of  informa-  add  to  the  attractiveness  of  the  sheet.  The 

tion  it  contains,  and  in  the  style  in  which  stores  themselves  carry  a  variety  of  facts. 
85  Per  Cent.  Photoplay  Theatres  this  information  is  presented,  the  Selig  and  are  devoid  of  sensationalism.  In  gen- 
As  against  this,  Newark's  three  legitimate  publication  is  built  along  lines  really  serv-  eral,  they  give  synopses  and  casts,  as  well 
houses  seat  5,900,  the  three  vaudeville  iceable  to  the  photoplay  editor.  as  the  strong  points  of  coming  Selig  pic- 
houses  5,223.  and  its  burlesque  houses  1,572.  In  the  first  place,  as  will  be  seen  from.  tures ;  interesting  incidents  that  happened 
To  place  the  situation  here  in  concrete  the  cut  on  this  page,  the  makeup  is  that  of  during  production ;  who  the  players  are : 
form  where  only  a  glance  is  necessary  to  the  newspaper  itself.    Head  letters,  used  on  something  about  the  authors,  and  anything 


Sdit   Pute-Pot  and 

Shear* 
Is   us«d  without 

fear*! 


PASTE-POT  AND  SHEARS 


All  Ihe  lat««l  "fMd 

•luCf," 
With  no  aon*eii*e  or 
guff! 


SELIG  WEEKLY  PRESS  NEWS 

All  the  New*  That's  Fit  to  Clip 


Vol.  2 


The  liTett  Elditors  always  rage 


Chicago,  111..  October  25,  1915 


When  they  nuM  our  Movie  page! 


No.  4- 


ACTORS  TO  CELEBRATE 
CONCLUSION  OF  CHRONICLES 
OF  BLOOM  CENTER  SERIES 


DO  YOU  KNOW? 


Inside  Pointers  About  Personal  Side 
of  Selig  Players. 


TO  GIVE  OLD  FASHIONED  DANCE 
IN    THE  MELODEON 
HALL. 


Deacon    Moon    to    Read  Article 
Bloom  Center's   Early  History 
Starting  with  Town  Pump. 


The  members  of  the  cast  who  pro- 
duced "The  Chronicles  of  Bloom  Cen- 
ter" will  celebrate  the  occasion  of 
filming  the  last  of  the  3erie3,  "When 
the  Circus  Came."  by  giving  a  "box 
party,"  on  the  Zoo  grounds.  There 
will  be  an  old-fashioned  dance  in  the 
pavilion. 

Each  woman  will  bring  a  box,  with 
sufQcient  lunch  for  two  and  the  boxes 
wiir  be  auctioned  off  and  the  proceeds 
given  to  some  Los  Angeles  charitable 
Jnstltution.  A  number  of  the  Bloom 
^er  Bugle  will  be  read  and  all  the' 
i6ume  the  role  of  report- 
bbs  as  editor  of  the 
rig  nil'' 


Do  you  know — 

That  two  out  of  three  of  the  actors 
employed  by  the  Selig  Company  are 
college  graduates? 

That  there  is  a  surprising  percentage 
of  fencers,  rowers,  runners,  boxers  and 
ball  players  among  Selig  Thespians? 

That  John  Lancaster.  5eUg  star,  de- 
votes bis  spare  time  to  things  mechani- 
cal? His  dres'sing  room  at  the  Selig 
Jungle-Zoo  is  as  neat  a  workshop  as 
one  could  wish  to  see. 

That  the  principal  hobby  of  charm- 
ing Edith  Johnson,  who  stars  in  the 
Selig  Red  Seal  play,  "Sweet  Alyssum," 
is  blooded  dogs? 

That  jovial  Ralph  McComas,  the 
"Chubby  Green"  in  Sellg's  "Chronicles 
of  Bloom  Center/'  was  the  crack  center 
of  an  all-star  eleven? 


SMOKING  OUT  CIGARETTES 
_J!ilJjAJCaQX£UR^ 


EXHIBITORS  ARE  URGED 
TO  USE  PRINTERS'  INK 
TO  INCREASE  RECEIPTS 


MOTION  PICTURE  EXHIBITORS  OF 
SEATTLE,  WASH.,  PRESENT 
VITAL  FIGURES. 


Spend    Large   Sums   in  Newspapers, 
But  It  All  Comes  Back  at 
Box  Office. 


The  Selig  Polystcope  Company  has 
recently  been  conducting  a  nation- 
wide campaign  among  thousands  of 
motion  picture  exhibitors  urging  them 
to  increase  their  prosperity  by  buying 
liberal  space  in  their  home  nei^spapers 
to  advertise  Big  Four  features.  The 
Selig  Company  has  been  advising  ex- 
hibitors not  to  squander  their  money 
on  small,  skimpy  ads,  but  to  buy  quar- 
ter, half  and  full  page  "spreads"  and 
to  buy  them  regularly.  In  a  recent 
edition  of  the  Selig  "Paate-Pot  and 
Shears"  a  page  ad  was  -printed  repro- 
ducing in  miniature  a  few  ads  used  by 
SeatJ^^  exhibitors.  This  action  brought 
from  Jenson  and  Von 
tbrao  Saaaie. 


LA  FAYETTE  McJCEE 


Presided  at  Pigeon   Banquet  Garbed 
in  British  General's  Uniform. 


Besides  being  ah  excellent  actor  La- 
Fayette  McKee  Is  a  pigeon  fancier  and 
owiler  of  many  rare  specimens  as  well 
as  a  large  pen  of  utility  birds.  He  Is 
president  of  the  largest  pigeon  club 
;west  of  Chicago.  Occasionally  his  du- 
ties to  his  club  and  to  Director  Sant- 
schi  cause  him  considerable  hurry.  For 
example,  while  playing  the  General  in 
"The  Vengeance  of  Hannah"  he  went  to 
the  seashore  to  do  ;some  "water  stuff." 
Time  passed  quickly  for  McKee  as  he 
realized  that  he  was  slated  to 'preside 
at 'a  pigeon  club  meeting  in  Pasadena 
flCty  miles  away.  McKee  finished  bis 
work  at  the  seashore,  called  an  auto 
and  hurried  to  the  meeting.  There 
was  no  time  for  him  to  change  bis 
clothes  and  barely  time  to  remove  his 
make-up.  consequently  he  presided  in 
the  uniform  of  a  British  general. 


"NEVER  MIND  ME,  OLD  TOP, 
PROTECT  PEDESTRIANS," 
QUOTES  FRANK  REAL 


MOVIE  "FIRST  NIGHT"  IS 
TO  BE  HARD  ON  NERVES  OF 
COMEDIAN  OTIS  HARUK 


PREPARES  TO  VIEW  HIS  INITIAL 
DEBUT  ON  MOVIE 
SCREEN. 


Says  He  Can  Feel  Heart  Thumping 
as  He  Views  His  Funny 
Shadow. 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  "be  found  ©very  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


"I've  been  on  the  stage  for  over 
thirty  years  and  yet  I  look  forward  t 
my  first  at)pearance  In  motion  picture 
with  all  the  nervousness  of  a  tyro,"  r? 
marked  Otis  Harlan,  the  comedian 
"James  Br&dburry,  who  supports  me  ii 
Hoyt's  'A  Black  Sheep,  releaset 
October  18th  as  a  Selig:Red  Seal  Play 
tells  me  that  he  has  the  same,  feeling 
Bradburry  has  been^on  the  stage  nearl; 
forty  years,  and  recently  closed  with  t 
Chicago  theatrical  company  to  makf 
motion  picture  acting  hla  future  occu 
pation. 

"To  me."  continued  Mr.  Hartan,  "the 
initial  appearance  in  Chicago  of  *A 
Black  Sheep'  will  be  just  like  the  flra: 
night  of  a  new  theatrical  production. 

rtr  my  h^-art  thumning  right 


48 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    No.  18. 


Kalem-Hornung  "Stingaree"  Ready  on  November  24 

"An  Enemy  of  Mankind"  Is  First  Episode  of  Series,  Released  in  Two-Reel  Instalments,  and 
Is  a  Prologue,  not  Written  by  English  Author 


else  that  can  fairly  be  called  news  in  the 
best  sense  of  that  term. 

And  another  thing :  The  Selig  sheet  can 
be  clipped.  A  good  deal  of  publicity  sent 
out  by  various  manufacturers  cannot  be,  be- 
cause when  the  editor  is  cutting  a  story 
out  of  one  page  he  is  cutting  up  a  story 
on  the  reverse  page.  This  fault  the  Selig 
publication  avoids.  It  is  of  four  pages.  On 
two  pages  news  items  are  run.  On  the 
back  of  each  appears  a  "house  ad,"  which 
is  to  be  read,  but  not  clipped.  Hence,  the 
news  pages  stand  by  themselves. 

All  of  which  shows  that  the  Selig  people 
have  found  out  the  secret  of  publicity  de- 
signed for  newspaper  use:  Give  the  news- 
paper what  it  wants,  and  in  the  shape  the 
newspaper  wants  it.  What  the  newspaper 
\vants  is  facts ;  facts  served  up  in  con- 
\enient  form.  This  formula  is  so  simple 
that  every  picture  manufacturer  ought  to 
have  discovered  it  long  ago.  Only  every 
picture  manufacturer  hasn't.  The  Selig 
Polyscope  Company  has. 

It  has  also  been  waging  a  campaign  to 
get  the  exhibitor  to  advertise  in  the  news- 
papers. 

The  success  of  both  these  progressive 
ideas  is  witnessed  in  the  following  excerpts 
from  a  letter  to  Motion  Picture  News 
from  H.  C.  Hoagland,-  of  the  Selig  pub- 
licity department: 

"Along  the  lines  which  you  are  working 
we  would  submit  a  copy  of  the  Philadel- 
phia Evening  Ledger,  of  Saturday,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1915,  in  which  a  very  large  dis- 
play ad  on  page  7  of  that  prominent  news- 
paper appears.  It  read  as  follows :  'Exhib- 
itors of  motion  pictures  should  use  printers' 
ink.  Two  out  of  three  successful  movie 
managers  have  cultivated  increased  busi- 
ness by  the  judicious  use  of  newspaper 
and  other  space.  Live  exhibitors  have 
taken  over  playhouses  which  seemed  "down 
and  out."  By  using  liberal  advertising 
space  and  dependable  picture-play  service 
they  have  built  up  the  "down  and  out" 
playhouses,  until  today  they  are  on  the 
broad  highway  to  prosperity.  We  believe 
in  newspaper  space  for  the  exhibitor.  We 
believe  when  the  exhibitor  books  unusual 
service  he  should  so  inform  the  public. — 
The  Selig  Polyscope  Company ;  reproduced 
from  Paste-Pot  and  Shears. 

"A  few  weeks  ago  we  published  a  page 
announcement  in  our  weekly,  Paste-Pot 
and  Shears,  urging  exhibitors  to  freely  ad- 
vertise. Our  Paste-Pot  and  Shears  goes 
to  the  office  of  nearly  every  well  regulated 
newspaper  in  America.  Not  only  the 
Philadelphia  Ledger,  but  a  number  of  other 
live  newspapers  have  reproduced  our  ad- 
vertising. 

"We  have  on  file  many  unsolicited  letters 
from  newspaper  men,  including  such  news- 
papers as  the  Toronto  World,  etc.,  compli- 
menting us  on  the  make-up  and  the  worth 
of  our  weekly  Paste-Pot  and  Shears.  You 
will  notice  if  you  will  read  carefully  the 
enclosed  current  copy,  that  the  articles  are 
not  long ;  that  they  are  attractively  written ; 
that  they  are  truthful,  and  that  they  are 
newsy.  We  also  call  your  attention  to 
the  column  of  original  editorial  paragraphs, 
which  are  used  as  filler  in  picture  pages, 
not  only  in  newspapers,  but  in  many  first 
class  magazines." 


<< CTINGAREE,"  considered  by  many  to 
^  be  the  best  work  of  E.  W.  Hornung, 
has  been  purchased  by  Kalem  at  a  cost  of 
$10,000,  and  the  first  episode  of  the  series, 
"An  E  nemy  of  Mankind,"  will  be  released 
on  Wednesday,  November  24.  Each  epi- 
sode is  complete  in  two  reels,  and  deals 
with  the  central  character  of  Stingaree,  a 
highwayman  of  the  Australian  bush,  who 


TRUE   BOARDMAN   AS  "STINGAREE' 


has  foresworn  civilization  and  determines 
to  prey  on  society. 

"An  Enemy  of  Mankind"  is  in  the  na- 
ture of  a  prologue,  and  while  dealing  with 
Mr.  Hornung's  famous  character  was  not 
written  by  the  English  author. 

The  production  was  made  by  the  West- 
ern Kalem  Company  at  Glendale,  Califor- 
nia, under  the  direction  of  James  W. 
Home.  True  Boardman,  who  has  already 
distinguished  himself  before    the  camera 


WORK  on  the  picturization  of  Robert 
Hichens'  "Bella  Donna,"  in  which 
Pauline  Frederick  is  to  be  starred  by  the 
Famous  Players  Film  Company,  has  been 
resumed  under  the  joint  direction  of 
Edwin  S.  Porter  and  Hugh  Ford. 

The  progress  of  the  adaptation  of  this 
dramatic  and  literary  success  was  cut  short 
by  the  disastrous  fire  which  destroyed  the 
Twenty-sixth  street  stuido  of  the  concern 
on  September  11. 

It  was  not  until  this  week  that  the  work 
could  be  again  taken  in  hand  as  both  direc- 
tors were  engrossed  in  the  replacing  of 
some  of  the  lost  scenes  in  "The  White 
Pearl,"  which  they  had  completed,  with 
Marie  Doro  as  the  star,  two  weeks  before 
the  outbreak  of  the  fire. 

Pauline  Frederick,  Thomas  Holding, 
Julian  L'Estrange  and  several  other  well- 
known   stage   favorites  were  sent  to  St. 


because  of  his  fearlessness,  was  entrusted 
with  the  part  of  Stingaree,  and  according 
to  advance  reports  has  added  to  his  reputa- 
tion as  a  clever  actor.  Because  of  his  ex- 
pert horsemanship  and  crack  rifle  shooting 
he  was  peculiarly  adapted  to  the  part. 

With  the  release  of  the  first  episode  ar- 
rangements have  been  made  by  the  Kalem 
Company  for  the  publication  of  the  story 
in  several  hundred  newspapers  in  all  sec- 
tions of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  the 
fiction  rights  having  been  secured  from 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

Stingaree  is  first  met  as  an  English  gen- 
tleman of  leisure.  Through  a  rapidly  mov- 
ing combination  of  circumstances  he  be- 
comes an  object  of  hatred  to  his  young 
brother.  Time  after  time  he  attempts  to 
save  the  youth  from  himself  but  is  finally 
made  to  bear  the  brunt  of  a  scandal  involv- 
ing the  name  of  a  married  woman. 

-Accidentally  Stingaree.,  who  is  then 
known  as  Irving  Randolph,  his  right  name, 
shoots  the  husband  during  target  practice 
and  to  save  the  family  name  as  well  as  to 
avoid  arrest  on  a  charge  of  murder  he  flees 
to  Australia. 

Embittered  by  the  failure  of  his  family  to 
believe  in  him,  and  the  fact  that  his  engage- 
ment has  been  broken,  Irving  resolves  to 
be  revenged  on  society  for  his  wrongs.  He 
adopts  the  name  of  Stingaree  and  by  his 
<]aring  hold-ups  and  fearlessness  soon  be- 
comes noted  throughout  the  countrJ^ 

But  through  it  all  he  maintains  a  peculiar 
code  of  morals,  always  inflicting  punish- 
ment where  he  believes  it  due,  and  taking 
to  himself  the  task  of  being  judge  and  jury 
in  meting  out  the  penalty.  While  each  epi- 
sode is  complete  in  itself  there  is  a  strong 
love  interest  developed  that  is  maintained 
throughout  the  series. 

The  production  of  the  series  marks  a  de- 
parture in  the  field  of  motion  pictures  and 
serves  to  introduce  a  character  who  it  is 
confidently  believed  will  rival  the  fame  he 
secured  in  fiction. 


Augustine,  Fla.,  under  the  guidance  of 
Messrs.  Porter  and  Ford,  for  the  purpose 
of  obtaining  the  scenes  in  the  desert  which 
form  such  an  important  part  of  the  story. 

The  players  had  returned  to  New  York 
with  these  scenes  just  two  days  before  the 
fire  and  it  was  feared  for  several  days  that 
this  portion  of  the  film,  which  had  been 
placed  in  the  film  vault,  was  destroyed. 
The  opening  of  the  vault  disclosed  the  fact 
that  the  views  had  been  entirely  saved  from 
the  flames.  Now,  after  a  month's  delay, 
the  work  is  being  taken  up  again. 


A.  J.  LOUGHLIN,  DETROIT  EXHIBITOR, 
DEAD 

Arthur  J.  Loughlin.  for  the  last  four 
years  proprietor  of  the  Dixie  theatre,  Dix 
and  Clark  Avenues,  Detroit,  Mich.,  died  as 
a  result  of  an  operation  on  October  14.  He 
was  at  one  time  a  circus  acrobat 


Work  on  "Bella  Donna,"  Checked  by  Fire,  Resumed 

Porter  and  Ford,  Until  This  Week  Busy  Replacing  Lost  Scenes  of  "White  Pearl,"  Now  at 
Liberty  to  Take  Up  Pauline  Frederick  Picture  Again 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


November  6.  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


49 


Judges  Condemn  Censorship  at  Ohio  Convention 


Manuel  Levine,  of  Common  Pleas,  in 
Suppression  in  Same  Class  with 
Samuel  Kramer 

special  to  Motion'  Picture  Xews 

Cleveland,  Oct.  25. 

DECIDED  action  was  taken  on  the 
question  of  censorship  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Ohio  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors'  League,  which  was  just  closed 
at  the  Hollenden.  Public  officials  and  jur- 
ists condemned  censorship  in  no  uncertain 
language.  The  resolution  adopted  on  the 
censorship  question  was  as  follows : 

"Resolved,  that  we  are  unalterably  op- 
posed to  motion  picture  censorship  in  all 
and  any  of  its  varied  forms,  knowing  from 
actual  experience  that  the  judgment  of  our 
patrons,  supported  by  the  existing  penal 
laws  of  Ohio,  is  all  sufficient  to  meet  the 
so-called  evils  complained  of  by  the  advo- 
cates of  censorship." 

Common  Pleas  Judge  Manuel  Levine 
talked  on  "The  Freedom  of  the  Photo- 
play" at  the  banquet  that  closed  the  meet- 
ing. Judge  Levine  said  that  he  was  op- 
posed to  censorship,  due  to  the  belief  that 
the  law  should  punish  individual  offenders 
and  not  place  guardians  over  the  law-abid- 
ing motion  picture  exhibitors.  "There  is 
no  more  reason  for  censoring  motion  pic- 
tures than  there  is  for  censoring  the  press 
or  curbing  free  speech,"  declared  Judge 
Levine. 

This  was  regarded  by  the  exhibitors  as 
a  slap  at  the  censors  who  are  trying  to 
stifle  free  speech,  as  flashed  on  the  screen. 
The  case  of  Samuel  Bullock,  Cleveland 
motion  picture  exhibitor,  arrested  at  the 
request  of  the  state  censors  for  showing 
the  extract  from  the  Herrington  address 
at  the  West  End  Business  Men's  picnic 
at  Puritan  Springs  the  past  summer,  was 
talked  over  freely  and  unofficially  by  the 
delegates.  The  outcome  of  this  case  is  be- 
ing watched  with  great  interest  all  over 
the  state,  as  it  will  set  a  precedent  on  a 
much-discussed  question. 

Judge  Samuel  Kramer  declared  that,  in 
his  opinion,  a  court  decision  will  be  neces- 
sary to  settle  the  censorship  question,  as 
there  are  many  angles  to  the  case  that  need 
elucidation. 

Censorship  Un-American,  Says  Benesch 

Director  of  Public  Safety  A.  A.  Benesch 
condemned  censorship,  saying  that  it  was 
un-American.  He  believes  that  local  au- 
thorities, not  those  of  the  state  located  at 
Columbus  who  are  unfamiliar  with  local 
conditions  and  wants  of  picture  theatre 
patrons,  should  settle  questions  that  arise 
regarding  pictures.  Other  speakers  were 
C.  E.  Baxter,  of  the  city  building  depart- 
ment; John  J.  Sullivan,  former  United 
States  district  attorney;  Police  Prosecutor 
Silbert,  Fred  J.  Herrington,  president  of 
the  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors'  League  of 
America,  Pittsburgh,  and  M.  A.  Miller,  of 
New  York,  who  said  that  censors  were 
needed  to  censor  the  censors. 

Geveland  delegates,  keeping  their  prom- 
ise that  they  would  not  try  to  dominate 
the  new  organization,  which  voted  unani- 
monslv  to  affiliate  with  the  Motion  Picture 


Talk  on  "Freedom  of  the  Photoplay"  at  Cleveland  Meeting  Regards  Picture 
Attempts  to  Stifle  the  Press  and  Curb  Free  Speech,  While  His  Colleague 
Looks  to  Court  Decision  for  Solution  of  Censor  Question 

occasions  that  the  motion  picture  theatres 
are  responsible  for  sleepy  children  who 
come  to  school  dull-eyed  and  listless  after 
a  long  sojourn  at  the  shows.  The  motion 
picture  managers  have  tried  on  various 
occasions  to  devise  some  system,  but  no 
concerted  action  was  taken  until  the  ques- 
tion was  presented  at  the  convention. 

Another  resolution  adopted  was  one  fa- 
voring the  formation  of  an  auxiliary  or- 
.ganization  to  embrace  representatives  of 
all  industries  allied  with  the  motion  pic- 
ture business.  It  was  recognized  that  all 
have  interests  in  common  and  that  all 
should  be  affiliated  for  their  common  good. 

State  Headquarters  in  Cleveland 

Headquarters  of  the  state  organization 
will  be  established  in  Cleveland,  as  the 
delegates  regard  Cleveland  as  the  main- 
spring of  the  motion  picture  industry  in 
Ohio.  This  city  also  will  be  the  center 
of  the  fight  on  the  censorship  question. 
Chairman  Williams,  of  the  state  board,  is 
aware  of  this  fact,  for  he  has  been  spend- 
ing considerable  time  in  Cleveland  of  late. 

A  merry  fight  was  staged  for  the  next 
convention,  with  about  half  a  dozen  cities 
in  the  race.  When  the  smoke  of  the  battle 
cleared,  it  was  found  that  Canton  had  won 
the  coveted  honor. 

An  elaborate  entertainment  program  was 
provided  for  the  delegates,  who  were  taken 
on  auto  rides  about  the  city,  visiting  the 
National  Carbon  Company's  works,  litho- 
graph plants,  film  exchanges  and  "taking 
in"  new  photoplays. 

P.AUL  .\lwyn  Platz. 


Exhibitors'  League  of  America,  declined  to 
make  any  nomination  for  president  or  vice- 
president.    The  officers  are : 

President,  Lamotte  Smith,  Alliance;  vice- 
president,  F"rank  Beverstock,  Mansfield; 
secretary,  W.  H.  Horsey,  Cleveland ;  treas- 
urer, Louis  PL  Becht,  Cleveland ;  national 
vice-president,  representing  Ohio,  Frank 
Kenney,  Cleveland. 

Max  Stern,  East  Liverpool ;  J.  H.  Clark, 
Ashland;  and  A.  A.  McGown,  Cleveland, 
were  elected  members  of  an  executive  com- 
mittee that  will  serve  in  conjunction  with 
the  officers  selected. 

Want  Curfew  for  Children 

One  of  the  most  important  question  set- 
tled was  the  decision  to  enforce  a  curfew 
for  children,  which  will  curtail  the  prac- 
tice of  children  coming  in  when  the  doors 
open  for  the  first  evening  performance  and 
remaining  until  the  "Good  Night'"  is  flashed 
on  the  screen.  The  curfew  will  not  be  the 
usual  bell-ringing  stunt,  but  this  announce- 
ment will  be  put  on  the  screen  each  night 
at  8:45:  "It  is  time  that  all  good  children 
were  off  home  and  to  bed."  At  9  o'clock 
the  attendants  will  see  to  it  that  all  ju- 
veniles unaccompanied  by  parents  are  out 
of  the  theatre.  No  tickets  will  be  sold  to 
children  after  7 :30  p.  m.  This  plan  re- 
ceived the  indorsement  of  Juvenile  Judge 
Addams,  who  has  been  striving  to  end 
complaints  about  children  being  around  the 
theatres  at  all  hours. 

It  is  expected  that  it  will  also  meet  with 
the  approval  of  teachers  in  the  public 
schools   who  have  charged   on  numerous 


Nance  O'Neil  Signs  with  Lubin  for  Feature  Series 

Scenario  Staff  Will  Submit  for  Consideration  of  Star  Original  Five-Reel  Scripts  and  a 
Special  Company  Will  Be  Selected  for  Her  Support 

Canyon  of  Arizona  to  complete  filming  of 


THROUGH  the  earnest  efforts  of 
Messrs.  Singhi  and  Lowry  of  the 
Lubin  company,  Nance  O'Neil,  the  Ameri- 
can emotional  actress,  has  been  persuaded 
to  abandon  her  contemplated  theatrical 
tour,  and  has  signed  a  contract  with  the 
Lubin  company  for  her  appearance  in  a 
series  of  feature  pictures  to  be  released 
through  the  V-L-S-E  offices. 

The  vehicles  in  which  Miss  O'Neil  will 
make  her  appearance  under  the  Lubin 
banner  have  not  as  yet  been  definitely  de- 
cided upon,  and  before  making  a  decision 
there  will  be  a  careful  consideration  of  the 
stock  of  motion  picture  rights  at  hand  in 
the  scenario  department. 

In  addition,  each  of  the  following  writ- 
ers of  the  Lubin  staff,  Anthony  P.  Kelly, 
Louis  Reeves  Harrison,  Mark  Swan, 
Daniel  Ellis,  Dr.  Daniel  Carson  Goodman 
and  George  Hennessy  will  submit  an  orig- 
inal five  real  script,  consideration  of  which 
will  be  given  seriously  along  with  the  pos- 
sible adaptation  of  stage  successes.  Miss 
O'Neil  will  be  consulted,  and  her  choice 
will  receive  the  recognition. 

Edgar  Lewis,  now  in  Gallup,  N.  M., 
whither  he  has    gone    from    the  Grand 


"The  Great  Divide,"  will  begin  work  on 
the  new  feature  with  Miss  O'Neil,  im- 
mediately uopn  completion  of  his  present 
picture,  on  his  arrival  in  Philadelphia. 

In  support  of  Miss  O'Neil  there  will  be 
engaged  a  special  company  of  stars,  which 
it  is  the  intent  of  the  Lubin  company  to 
hold  intact  as  far  as  possible  through  the 
entire  series  of  pictures  featuring  Miss 
O'Neil. 


FEATURE  FILM  TO  MAKE  SERIES  FOR 
PATHE 

The  Feature  Film  Corporation,  releas- 
ing through  the  Pathe  Exchange,  will  in 
the  near  future  start  work  upon  a  series 
to  be  written  by  one  of  the  best  writers 
of  the  day.  The  series  will  be  produced 
by  ]VIanaging  Director  Edward  Jose. 

George  A.  Smith,  serial  manager  of  the 
Feature  Film  Corporation,  has  left  upon 
an  extended  trip,  which  will  cover  all  the 
big  cities  west  of  New  York,  to  arrange 
for  the  newspaper  syndication  of  the 
stories.  Arrangements  for  this  scries  are 
now  practically  complete. 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  v;eek  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


50  '  MOTIONPICTURENEWS  Vol.  12.   Ko.  18. 

GLIMPSES  OF  A  FEW  NOTABLE  SCENES  IN  FAMOUS  PLAYERS'  ADAPTATION  OF  "MADAME  BUTTERFLY" 


THIS  SCREEN  VERSION  OF  JOHN  LUTHER  LONG'S  CLASSIC.  STARRING     MARY  PICKFORD.  WILL  BE  RELEASED  NOV.  8  THROUGH  PARAMOUNT 


"SIDNEY  DREW  DAY"  ESTABLISHED  IN 
POPULAR  FAVOR 

"Sidney  Drew  Day,"  inaugurated  by  the 
Vitagrapli  company  that  exhibitors  may 
know  definitely  when  to  expect  a  release 
in  which  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  Drew  are 
featured,  has  become  an  established  insti- 
tution with  theatre  managers  and  motion 
picture  fans  all  over  the  country.  This 
talented  pair  are  the  two  busiest  players  of 
the  Vitagraph  Stock  Company,  as  the  ar- 
rangement calls  for  a  comedy  release  every 
Friday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Drew  not  only  enact  the 
principal  characters,  but  Mr.  Drew  directs 
all  the  picture  stories,  while  his  wife  is 
responsible  for  the  majority  of  the  pictur- 
izations.  Commencing  Friday,  November 
1,  the  releases  for  the  month  will  include 
four  of  the  most  comprehensive  comedies 
to  which  he  has  attached  his  name,  includ- 
ing "Beautiful  Thoughts,"  "Romantic 
Reggie,"  "Diplomatic  Henry"  and  "All  for 
the  Love  of  a  Girl,"  which  will  be  given 
to  the  public  each  succeeding  Friday,  in 
the  order  named. 


"BLOOM  CENTER"  DIRECTOR  A  FIRM 
BELIEVER  IN  REALISM 

Sidney  Smith,  who  is  now  directing  "The 
Chronicles  of  Bloom  Center,"  the  Selig 
rural  comedy  series  which  critics  assert 
is  sure  to  set  a  new  style  in  screen  comedy, 
is  a  firm  believer  in  realism  and  taboos  the 
"dummy"  on  all  occasions. 

In  a  recent  number  of  the  comedy  series 
the  scenario  called  for  a  drop  of  the  hero 
off  a  telephone  pole.  Smith  decided  to  take 
the  drop  himself.  He  did— and  he  landed 
in  a  box  of  mortar  loaded  on  a  passing 
cart. 


BROADWELL  JOINS  HORSLEY  FORCES 
AS  DIRECTOR 

The  latest  director  to  join  David  Hors- 
ley's  forces  at  the  Los  Angeles  studios  is 
R.  B.  Broadwell,  who  has  staged  many 
productions  for  different  organizations  on 
the  coast. 

He  is  now  engaged  in  putting  on  "Could 
a  Man  Do  More?"  a  three-reel  Centaur 
star  feature,  with  Crane  Wilbur,  which  will 
be  released  on  the  Mutual  program  Nov. 
24. 


Mary  Pickford  in  "Madame  Butterfly"  for  Famous 

Long  Wrote  It  20  Years  Ago,  Belasco  Produced  Play  with  Blanche  Bates,  Puccini  Turned  It 
Into  Opera  in  1904  and  Savage  Presented  It  Here  Two  Years  Later 

her.  Lest  the  child  witness  the  terrible 
fate  of  the  mother,  Cho-Cho-San  blindfolds 
its  eyes.  Then  she  disappears  behind  the 
tall  screen  and  emerges  with  the  triumph 
of  death  in  her  eyes.  As  she  stumbles  and 
falls,  Pinkerton  enters  and  catches  her 
where  she  dies,  happy  in  the  thought  of 
resting  in  her  lover's  arms. 

For  the  settings  of  this  pathetic  tale,  Sid 
Olcott,  under  whose  direction  it  is  being 
produced,  obtained  the  exclusive  use  of  the 
most  beautiful  Japanese  gardens  in  the 
United  States.  That  no  detail  of  costume 
or  native  usage  might  be  overlooked,  one 
of  the  most  dependable  authorities  on  Jap- 
anese matters — a  member  of  the  New  York 
Nipponese  colony — was  especially  engaged 
to  superintend  the  buying  of  costumes  and 
the  acquisition  of  all  properties  used. 

Cho-Cho-San  is  by  far  the  most  exacting 
role  that  Miss  Pickford  has  ever  been 
called  upon  to  enact,  not  only  because  of 
the  suppressed  emotionalism  which  such 
a  part  absolutely  demands,  but  because  this 
character  has  already  been  enshrined  in  the 
hearts  of  the  public  by  some  of  the  foremost 
artistes  of  the  stage. 

In  support  of  the  star,  there  appears 
Marshal  Neilan  in  the  role  of  Lieutenant 
Pinkerton,  the  faithless  lover.  Mr.  Neilan 
is  already  familiar  to  the  motion  picture 
public  by  reason  of  his  excellent  work  in 
leading  roles.  Others  who  appear  in  the 
cast  are  W.  T.  Carleton,  Olive  West.  Jane 
Hall,  and  Lawrence  Wood. 


ttjVyiADAME  BUTTERFLY,"  by  John 
i V 1  Luther  Long,  is  at  last  to  be  given  to 
the  motion  picture  public  with  Mary  Pick- 
ford in  the  role  of  Cho-Cho-San.  by  the 
Famous  Players  Film  Companv.  on  Novem- 
ber 8. 

"Madame  Butterfly"  was  written  about 
twenty  years  ago.  David  Belasco  produced 
it  with  Blanche  Bates  in  the  leading  role,  in 
which  she  scored  one  of  the  greatest  suc- 
cesses of  her  career.  In  1904,  Puccini,  the 
Italian  composer,  wove  about  it  one  of  the 
most  exquisite  musical  settings  that  has 
ever  been  heard  on  any  operatic  stage.  Two 
years  later  the  opera  was  introduced  into 
this  country  by  Henry  W.  Savage,  and  it 
has  ever  since  been  one  of  the  most  popular 
offerings  of  the  musical  world. 

Now  it  is  to  be  immortalized  upon  the 
screen  as  a  Paramount  picture. 

The  appealing  story  develops  as  follows : 
Lieutenant  Pinkerton,  U.  S.  N.,  while  sta- 
tioned in  Japan,  marries  Cho-Cho-San, 
whom  he  affectionately  calls  "Madame  But- 
terfly." Pinkerton  sails  away,  promising  to 
return  when  the  robins  nest  again.  In  time 
there  comes  a  little  babe  to  gladden  the 
heart  of  Cho-Cho-San.  who  still  believes 
that  her  lover  is  faithful.  The  dreary 
months  drag  on  and  finally  there  comes 
word  that  Pinkerton  is  returning. 

The  American  Consul,  learning  that  Pin- 
kerton has  married  his  American  sweet- 
heart and  is  bringing  her  to  Japan,  goes 
to  Cho-Cho-San"s  home  to  tell  her  the 
truth.  When  he  arrives,  he  finds  the  faith- 
ful little  wife  keeping  vigil  and  preparing 
the  house  for  the  coming  of  her  lord  and 
master. 

Touched  by  the  supreme  happiness  of 
Cho-Cho-San,  the  Consul  has  not  the  heart 
to  acquaint  her  with  the  truth,  and  departs 
without  delivering  his  message.  But  the 
blow  which  the  kindly  Consul  sought  to 
ward  off  is  merely  made  the  more  bitter 
for  the  little  wife,  for  Pinkerton  arrives 
accompanied  by  the  American  wife. 

Stunned  by  the  shock,  little  Cho-Cho- 
Saii  staggers  to  the  wall  where  her  groping 
hand  finds  the  sword  of  her  father.  As  she 
is  about  to  plunge  it  into  her  aching  heart, 
the  little  babv  crawls  across  the  floor  to 


BILLY  B.  VAN  S  COMPANY  STUDIO  IN 
RIDGEFIELD  PARK,  N.  J. 

The  Equity  Motion  Picture  Company. 
Strand  Theatre  Building,  New  York.  Billy 
B.  \'an.  president,  has  purchased  the  J.  W. 
Gunby  studio  at  Ridgefield  Park.  N.  J. 
The  structure  is  of  steel  and  concrete,  and 
there  is  a  large  printing  and  developing 
plant  in  connection  with  the  studio,  equip- 
ped with  all  facilities  for  the  production  of 
one  and  two  reel  comedies. 

The  company  of  players  working  at  \"an 
Harbor.  Lake  Sunapee.  N.  H..  will  soon 
begin  rehearsals  in  the  new  studio  at  Ridee- 
field  Park.  N.  T. 


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Xovember  6,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


51' 


BALTIMORE    EXHIBITORS  ATTEND 
ROTHAPFEL  BANQUET 

Sfecial  to  Motion  Picture  News. 

Baltimore.  Md..  Oct.  26. 

A  number  of  Baltimore  exhibitors  at- 
tended a  banquet  at  the  Hotel  Raleigh, 
Washington,  D.  C,  the  early  part  of  the 
month.  The  banquet  was  tendered  by  B. 
C.  Cunningham,  manager  of  the  Mutual 
Film  Corporation's  \\'ashington  office. 

The  dinner  was  in  honor  of  S.  L.  Rothap- 
fel  of  New  York,  manager  of  the  Rialto 
theatre,  under  construction  at  Fortj--second 
street  and  Broadway,  New  York.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  exhibitors  from  Baltimore,  pic- 
ture men  from  other  points  of  Maryland, 
Virginia  and  West  Virginia  attended. 


"Crimson  Wing,"  Essanay,  an  Extra,  Now  Ready 


OPIE  READ  TO  WRITE  SCRIPTS 
EXCLUSIVELY  FOR  MIRROR 

Spepal  to  Motion  Picture  Xews 

Chicago,  Oct.  25. 

Captain  Harry  Lambart,  of  the  Mirror 
Films,  Inc.,  has  signed  contracts  with  Opie 
Read,  the  novelist,  whereby  he  will  write 
original  scenarios  exclusively  for  the  new 
corporation.  He  is  to  begin  work  on  his 
first  script  in  a  few  weeks. 

Mr.  Read  has  never  written  anything  for 
the  screen  although  one  of  his  books  has 
been  adapted  for  the  film.  He  proposes  to 
write  human  interest  stories  showing  every 
dav  American  life  for  the  Mirror. 


Picture  Will  Be  Released  Shortly  on  V-L-S 
with  Regular  Schedule  of  One 

GEORGE  K.  SPOOR,  president  of  Es- 
sanay, announces  the  release  of  an 
extra  six-part  feature  photoplay  on  the 
V-L-S-E  program.  It  has  been  completed 
some  time  and  is  now  ready  for  booking. 
It  comes  in  as  a  "special,"  the  regular  plays 
of  one  each  four  weeks  being  released  as 
usual. 

The  extra  is  "The  Crimson  Wing,"  dra- 
matized from  the  widely-known  novel  of 
that  title,  by  Hobart  C.  Chatfield-Taylor, 
Chicago  and  \\  ashington  society  leader  and 
litterateur.  It  is  a  strong  drama  of  war 
and  romance,  and  the  scenes  are  laid  on 
present  battle  line  between  Germany  and 
F'rance 

W'hile  it  portrays  with  striking  vividness 
the  terrors  and  heroism  of  war,  it  is  strictly 
neutral,  taking  sides  with  no  faction.  It 
ends  with  a  touching  love  scene,  uniting  a 
man  and  woman  of  opposing  nations.  The 
drama  is  presented  in  a  manner  that  not 
only  gives  offense  to  none,  but  makes  the 
heart  go  out  in  sympathy  to  all  the  battling 
nations  and  yearn  for  a  permanent  peace. 

Exceptional  interest  is  attached  to  the 
photoplay  because  of  societf  leaders,  na- 
tional and  world  characters,  who  take  part 
in  it.    Garden  and  villa  scenes  were  taken 


North  American  Offers  $10,000  for  New  "Diamond" 

Company  Wants  Sequel  with  Solutions  to  the  Queries  "What  Becomes  of  the  Diamond,  the 
Child,  and  What  Happens  to  Blair  Stanley  and  Vivian  Marston?" 


H'T'  HE  Diamond  from  the  Sky"  is  draw- 

•i  ing  to  its  first  run  close.  On  No- 
vember 22  will  be  released  the  thirtieth 
and  final  chapter  of  Roy  L.  ^IcCardell's 
picturized  novel. 

There  were  twelve  miles  of  negative 
alone,  from  which  prints  were  made,  to- 
taling 6,000,000  feet  or  1.000  miles  of  posi- 
tive stock.  It  would  take  the  fastest  rail- 
road train  in  the  world  twenty  hours  to 
travel  from  one  end  to  the  other  of  this 
film,  if  laid  out  on  a  track.  And  if  so 
stretched  out.  Mayor  Thompson  could  hold 
one  end  in  the  Chicago  city  hall  and  Mayor 
Mitchel  the  other  end  in  New  York. 

The  posters  used  to  advertise  the  big 
picture  up  to  date,  if  placed  side  by  side, 
would  extend  across  the  country  for  5,250,- 
000  feet,  or  approximately  1,000  miles,  and 
circulars  and  lobby  displays,  if  similarly 
placed,  would  extend  another  500  miles. 

The  bookings  of  "The  Diamond  from  the 
Sky"  have  reached  more  than  $1,000,000, 
and  new  bookings  in  smaller  cities  where 
exhibitors  are  just  beginning  the  big  pic- 
ture with  chapter  one.  are  coming  into  the 
executive  offices. 

With  the  showing  of  the  final  chapter, 
motion  picture  fans  throughout  the  country 
will  have  opportunity  to  gain  a  prize  of 
$10,000.  This  is  the  fortune  offered  by  the 
North  American  Film  Corporation  to  any- 
one who  develops  the  best  and  most  prac- 
ticable suggestion  for  a  sequel  to  "The 
Diamond  from  the  Sky."  In  writing  this 
suggestion,  which  should  be  limited  to 
1.000  words,  it  will  be  unnecessary  to  dis- 
play any  style  or  literary  genius.  The 
judges  will  consider  only  the  idea. 


However,  these  important  questions 
should  be  given  careful  thought  by  the 
aspirants  to  fame  and  the  offered  fortune : 

What  becomes  of  the  diamond?  W'hat 
becomes  of  the  child?  What  is  the  fate 
of  Blair  Stanley?  What  happens  to  Vivian 
Marston  ? 

These  questions  must  be  answered  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  pudges  who  will  award 
the  SIO.OOO. 

Later  a  date  will  be  announced  when 
this  sequel  will  be  produced. 


■E  Program  as  a  Special  Without  Interference 
Feature  Every  Four  Weeks 

on  the  grounds  and  in  the  homes  of  Chi- 
cago's wealthiest  citizens,  including  Hobart 
C.  Chatfield-Taylor,  the  author,  Harold  and 
Cyrus  McCormick.  Orville  Babcock,  Ed- 
ward S.  Moore.  James  Ward  Thorne.  Scott 
Durand  and  Howard  Shaw.  The  majority 
of  these  persons,  with  their  wives  and  fami- 
lies appear  in  the  play. 

Mr.  Moore,  vice-president  of  the  Rock 
Island  Railroad,  takes  the  part  of  a  chauf- 
feur in  one  scene.  He  is  dressed  in  army 
uniform  and  drives  his  own  $14,000  car. 
Wallace  Rice,  author  and  playwright,  also 
takes  a  part  in  the  play. 

Several  hundred  feet  of  film  were  taken 
in  France  on  the  border  line  of  Germany, 
showing  the  French  army  in  maneuvers 
and  commanded  by  General  Joffre,  the  head 
of  the  French  army. 

The  photoplay  is  directed  by  E.  H.  Cal- 
vert, a  W'est  Point  man.  who  has  seen  four- 
teen years  of  service  in  the  U.  S.  army. 
Capt.  Calvert  also  takes  the  leading  role 
with  Ruth  Stonehouse. 

The  story  itself  is  replete  with  dramatic 
situations,  human  interest  details  of  love, 
intrigue  and  war,  and  the  settings  so  gor- 
geous that  it  lends  itself  peculiarly  to  photo- 
graphic art.  The  battle  scenes,  while  spec- 
tacular, are  small  enough  so  that  detailed 
action  is  noted, 

Mr.  Chatfield-Taylor,  who  is  thoroughly 
familiar  with  the  historic  European  battle- 
ground, was  present  throughout  and  as- 
sisted Capt,  Calvert  in  its  direction. 


YACHT  DYNAMITED  IN  TAKING  OF 
"EMPTY  HOTEL" 

A  steam  yacht  was  dynamited  in  Princess 
Bay,  off  Staten  Island,  Thursday.  October 
14,  by  the  Vitagraph  Company  in  the  taking 
of  its  feature  film,  "The  Surprises  of  an 
Empty  Hotel." 

The  yacht  was  the  Jl'ayzvard.  one  hun- 
dred feet  in  length,  the  wmner  of  two  races 
to  Bermuda  several  vears  ago. 


ONE  OF  THE  PICTURESaTTE  SEVILLE  STHEET  SCENES  IN  THE  FOX  "CARMEN' 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol  12.    No  \K 


Mrs.  Wilson  Woodrow  Will  Write  Next  Pathe  Series 

Cousin  of  President  Wilson,  Who  Gathered  Literary  Material  in  Western  Mining  CampB  aa<l 
Contributed  to  "McClure's,"  "Hearst's"  and  "Life,"  Collaborates  on  Belasco  Play 


GRACE  ELLISTON,  STAGE  STAR,  FOR 
SCREEN  DEBUT  WITH  ROLFE-METRO 

Grace  EUiston,  one  of  the  foremost  ac- 
tresses in  the  countr\-,  who  achieved  a  tri- 
umph in  "The  Lion  and  the  Mouse,"  will 
make  her  bow  on  the  screen  in  a  big  five- 
part  feature  picture  now  in  production  at 
the  Rolfe  Photo  Plays,  Inc.,  studio  for  re- 
lease on  the  Metro  program.  The  EUiston 
picture  is  yet  unnamed. 

Miss  EUiston  was  born  in  West  Virginia 


GRACE  ELLISTON 


and  made  her  first  appearance  on  the  stage 
in  1899  at  the  Lyceum  theatre,  New  York 
She  received  her  early  training  under  the 
personal  direction  of  Charles  and  Daniel 
Frohman,  and  was  afterward  the  leading 
woman  for  Richard  Mansfield,  Nat  Good- 
win, Henry  Miller  and  other  big  stars. 
Most  of  her  time  was  spent  in  Broadway 
productions,  but  her  long  run  in  "The  Lion 
and  the  Mouse"  brought  her  fame  through- 
out the  country,  and  carried  her  to  nearly 
every  State  in  the  Union. 

As  Kathie  in  "Old  Heidelberg,"  in  which 
Mr.  Mansfield  starred,  Miss  EUiston  scored 
heavily.  She  proved  her  versatility  by  a 
delightful  interpretation  of  Olivia  in  an  all- 
star  cast  of  "Twelfth  Night,"  Her  clever 
work  with  Henry  Miller  in  "The  Taming 
of  Helen"  is  well  remembered  by  playgoers. 
During  the  season  of  1913  Miss  EUiston 
caused  blase  New  York  to  "sit  up  and  take 
notice"  with  the  daring  character,  Molly,  in 
"Ourselves,"  a  startling  human  document. 

Edward  Brennan  will  be  featured  with 
Miss  EUiston  in  her  debut  on  the  screen. 


BARKER  GENERAL  MANAGER  IS  EN 
ROUTE  TO  AMERICA 

Jack  Smith,  general  manager  of  Barker 
Motion  Photography,  Ltd.,  of  Soho  Square, 
London,  is  on  his  way  to  America,  bring- 
ing with  him  some  of  the  firm's  Feature 
Films. 


PATHfi  has  secured  the  services  of  Mrs. 
Wilson  Woodrow  to  write  the  stories 
of  the  next  Pathe  series.  The  widely 
recognized  talents  of  Mrs.  Woodrow  as- 
sure the  literary  excellence  of  the  stories 
and  the  value  of  the  pictures  from  the 
story  standpoint. 

Mrs.  Woodrow  has  been  so  much  in  the 
public  eye  that  a  brief  account  of  her  life 
and  activities  should  be  of  interest.  Of 
distinguished  colonial  ancestry  she  has  also 
the  distinction  of  being  the  cousin  of  the 
President  by  marriage,  her  husband  being 
Mr.  Wilson's  first  cousin.  She  was  born 
in  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  her  ancestors  having 
been  among  the  original  settlers  of  that 
place. 

Her  great  grandfather  was  appointed 
comptroller  of  public  moneys  by  George 
Washington,  and  Samuel  Finley,  second 
president  of  Princeton  College,  was  her 
great  grand  uncle.  After  the  death  of  her 
father,  who  was  a  doctor,  her  mother 
liought  a  newspaper,  and  it  was  through 


if'T'HE  great  increase  in  the  output  of  Es- 
1  sanay  photoplays  and  the  extra 
studio  space  needed  to  produce  its  multiple 
reel  features,  resulted  in  the  building  of  a 
new  open-air  studio,  200  x  200  feet,  just 
completed.  It  was  first  used  by  Director 
Charles  J.  Brabin  in  filming  "The  Raven," 
taken  from  Poe's  life  and  his  poem  of  the 
same  title,  scenario  by  George  C.  Hazelton 
and  featuring  Henry  B.  Walthall. 

In  the  last  three  or  four  months  the  Es- 
sanay  company  has  been  forced  to  augment 
the  staff  of  directors  to  meet  the  output 
demand  for  multiple-reel  features  and  the 
photoplays  that  are  being  released  through 
the  regular  channels. 

While  work  on  the  new  two-story  indoor 
studio  is  being  rushed  and  it  will  be  com- 
pleted some  time  this  winter,  there  was 


WILLIAM  D.  TAYLOR,  whose  "Cap- 
tain Alvarez"  was  one  of  the  big- 
gest film  hits  ever  scored  on  Broadway, 
and  who  before  that  filled  important  en- 
gagements with  Charles  Hawtrey,  Fanny 
Davenport,  Sol  Smith  Russell,  Katherine 
Kidder  and  others,  has  been  engaged  as  a 
director  by  Pallas  Pictures. 

The  new  Pallas  Picture  director  was 
born  in  Ireland  and  was  educated  at  Clif- 
ton College  in  England.  His  ambition  was 
to  go  into  the  army,  but  he  was  barred  on 
the  eyesight  tests.  He  traveled  through 
Germany  and  France,  studying  languages, 
and  finally  came  to  America,  visiting  some 
of  the  most  famous  gold  fields  of  recent 
years,  as  prospector  and  miner,  all  the 
way  from   Telluride,   Colo.,  to  Dawson, 


that  newspaper  that  the  later  Mrs.  Wood- 
row  became  a  writer. 

After  her  marriage,  with  her  husband 
who  was  a  mining,  civil  and  bridge  en- 
gineer, she  lived  in  the  remote  mining 
camps  of  Colorado  and  Arizona,  obtaining 
there  much  literary  material  of  which  she 
made  later  use.  Her  first  story  was  of  a 
woman  in  the  mining  camps,  and  it  had 
the  unusual  experience  of  being  received 
by  McClure's  on  a  .Friday,  being  accepted 
the  next  day,  and  the  check  in  payment 
for  it  being  in  the  author's  hands  the  fol- 
lowing Monday. 

The  story  was  responsible  for  her  being 
requested  to  write  a  series  for  McClure's, 
which  series  ran  for  three  years.  For  five 
or  six  years  Mrs.  Woodrow  enjoyed  the 
distinction  of  being  the  only  woman 
featured  among  the  contributors  of  Life. 
Recently  she  has  been  a  steady  contributor 
to  Hearst's  Magazine. 

Of  late  Mrs.  Woodrow  has  been  collabo- 
rating on  play: 


an  immediate  demand  for  extra  floor  space, 
so  the  outdoor  studio  was  constructed.  The 
indoor  studio  will  be  350  x  175  feet,  and  the 
offices  of  the  company  will  be  on  the  second 
floor. 

It  took  two  weeks  to  erect  the  outdoor 
studio,  which  has  a  polished  floor  and  joists 
of  hickory  supporting  hea\'y  tarpaulin  cur- 
tains which  can  be  manipulated  to  regulate 
the  lighting.  While  it  has  been  erected  un- 
der the  pressure  of  increased  business,  it 
will  be  used  permanently,  even  when  the 
new  studio  is  completed,  for  interior  sets 
that  may  demand  the  peculiar  quality  of  film 
that  can  be  obtained  only  by  sunlight  pic- 
tures. 

The  outdoor  studio  is  capable  of  holding 
several  different  sets,  allowing  many  di- 
rectors to  work  at  the  same  time. 


Alaska,  and  ranched  for  a  time  in  southern 
Kansas. 

Taylor  played  with  Charles  Hawtrey  in 
"The  Private  Secretary,"  and  played  leads 
and  acted  as  personal  manager  for  Fanny 
Davenport,  the  greatest  "Cleopatra"  of  her 
time.  He  was  with  Sol  Smith  Russell  for 
several  seasons,  and  at  a  moment's  notice 
took  Jack  Gilmore's  place  in  the  Castle 
Square  stock  company,  in  Boston,  when 
that  actor  broke  his  shoulderblade.  His 
last  stage  engagement  was  with  Harry  Cor- 
son Clarke,  in  Honolulu. 

Following  his  New  York  sensation  in 
the  title  role  of  Captain  Alvarez,  he  went 
to  the  Pacific  Coast  and  launched  out  into 
tlie  directing  end  w^here  he  established  him- 
self successfully. 


New  Essanay  Studio  Used  by  Brabin  for  "Raven" 

Outdoor  Stage,  200  by  200  Feet,  Just  Completed  After  Two  Weeks"  Rush  Work,  Is  Capable 
of  Holding  Several  Different  Sets  at  a  Time 


Pallas  Signs  W.  D.  Taylor,  Veteran  Actor,  as  Director 

He  Filled  Important  Engagements  with  Charles  Hawtrey,  Sol  Smith  Russell,  Katherine 
Kidder  and  Played  Leads  with  and  Acted  as  Personal  Manager  of  Fanny  Davenport 


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November  6.  1915  MOTION     PICTURE  NEWS 

WHEN  ANITA  KING,  THE  PARAMOUNT  GIRL,  REACHED  NEW  YORK  AT  THE  END  OF  HER  LONG  JOURNEY 


S3 


HER  CAE  TOUCHES  THE  MANHATTAN  SHORE— PRESIDENT  HODKINSON  GREETS   HER  IN  THE  MIDDLE  OF  FIFTH   AVENUE— MISS  KING,  WITH 
THE  CUP  PRESENTED  TO  HER  BY  THE  KISSEL  CAR  COMPANY  AND   THE  FLOWERS  GIVEN  HER  BY  THE  FIRESTONE  TIRE  COMPANY 


GERTRUDE   BONDHILL,  ASSOCIATED, 
AN  EXPERIENCED  ACTRESS 

Gertrude  Bondhill,  leading  lady  of  the 
Pike's  Peak  Photoplay  Co.,  releasing  on 
the  Associated  program,  before  appearing 
on  the  screen,  played  leads  in  some  of  the 
best  known  stock  companies  in  America 


GERTRUDE  BONDHILL 

Before  quitting  the  stage,  she  appeared  in 
Detroit  with  the  Glaser  stock  company. 

Those  that  have  seen  her  in  the  new 
productions  of  the  Pike's  Peak  Company, 
"Love's  Probation,"  "Hilary  of  the  Hills," 
etc.,  prophesy  a  future  for  her. 


DIRECTOR  GARRICK,  GAUMONT,  GOES 
SOUTH 

Richard  Garrick,  director  for  Rialto 
Star  Features  of  the  Gaumont  Company, 
left  New  York  Monday,  October  25,  for 
Jacksonville,  Fla.,  to  arrange  for  the  re- 
ception of  his  Gaumont  dramatic  stock 
company,  which  will  soon  follow. 

Mr.  Garrick  has  just  completed  the  beau- 
tiful phantasy  of  disembodied  souls,  "The 
New  Adam  and  Eve,"  based  on  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne's  story.  Grace  Valentine  will 
be  starred  in  this  Casino  Star  Feature, 
which  is  to  be  released  November  17  on 
the  Mutual  program. 


Friendly  Host  Left  in  Wake  of  Paramount  Girl 

Admirers  at  ALL  Points  Along  Trans-Continental  Route  to  Get  Slide  Message  of  Remem- 
brance on  Screens  of  Theatres  Showing  Pictures  of  the  Company 

a  slide  on  your  screen  and  tell  them  that 
I  have  safely  arrived  and  that  I  want  to 
write  to  them  and  hear  from  them.  Say 
that  if  they  send  their  names  and  addresses 
to  the  Paramount  Pictures  Corporation,  110 
West  Fortieth  street.  New  York,  I  will  get 
them  and  be  glad  to  keep  my  promise. 

"Tell  them  that  I'll  soon  be  at  work  on 
the  picture  in  which  the  Lasky  company  is 
to  star  me  at  Paramount  theatres,  and  that 
when  they  see  me  on  the  screen,  though  I 
won't  be  there  to  tell  them  so,  I'll  remember 
them  just  the  same. 

"With  kind  recollections  of  a  happy  time 
with  you  and  sincere  wishes  for  your  con- 
tinued success  with  the  program  which,  I 
know,  aims  high  and  hits  the  mark,  I  am, 
"Cordially  yours, 

"Anita  King, 
"The  Paramount  Girl." 
"Now,  that's  done,"  she  said,  and  smiled 
again.  When  Anita  King  smiles  the  world 
seems  brighter.  "I'm  very  tired,"  she  con- 
tinued, "and  I  don't  seem  able  to  rest  up. 
In  my  sleep  I  see  the  road  before  me,  feel 
the  throb  of  the  engine  and  hear  the  screech 
of  that  terrifically  loud  horn  which  stood 
me  in  such  good  stead  in  the  mountains. 
Sometime  I  guess  I'll  get  over  it.  but  now 
I'm  awfully  homesick  for  California. 

"When  the  orchestra  played  'California 
and  You'  the  other  night  just  before  I 
spoke,  it  suddenly  came  over  me  how  long 
I've  been  away,  and  I'm  dying  to  get  back 
to  the  studio.  The  life  there  is  different 
from  anywhere  else  in  the  world." 

Later  at  the  Grand  Central  Station  as  she 
was  about  to  step  on  the  train  which  would 
take  her  back  home  she  said :  "If  I've  gone 
through  any  hardship — and  now  I  think  I 
have,  though  things  have  a  way  of  looking 
big  when  you're  near  them — it's  been  for 
Paramount." 


<<■  I  'HE  car  w^ith  a  thousand  names,"  said 
■I-  Anita  King,  the  Paramount  Girl,  in 
response  to  a  question  as  to  the  where- 
abouts of  the  "Coast-to-Coast  Submarine" 
in  which  she  came  through  rain  and  mud 
across  the  Continent  alone,  "is  now  repos- 
ing in  the  lobby  of  the  Broadway  theatre." 

A  glance  from  the  window  of  Miss  King's 
suite  at  the  Hotel  Knickerbocker  was  all 
that  was  necessary  to  prove  the  truth  of 
her  statement — if  proof  were  necessary. 
Traffic  on  Broadway  was  stopped.  Crowds 
blocked  the  streets  and  sidewalk,  packing 
into  the  theatre  lobby  to  read  the  inscrip- 
tions on  the  car  and  on  the  loving  cup  pre- 
sented to  her  by  the  Kissel  Kar  Company, 
and  to  see  the  newspaper  clippings  framed 
at  one  side  and  the  photographs  of  the  little 
traveler  at  the  other. 

"Those  are  very  precious  to  me,"  Miss 
King  went  on,  referring  to  thousands  of 
names  plastered  on  the  car,  "since  each 
represents  one  of  the  million  friends  I've 
made  in  the  cities  along  the  way.  Every- 
where I've  been  treated  royally  and  I'm 
proud  to  be  the  Paramount  Girl,  for  despite 
many  disagreeable  experiences  it  was  a 
wonderful  trip  and  I  always  have  my  own 
picture  to  look  forward  to.  In  the  wind 
and  rain  through  which  I've  come  many  of 
the  names  have  either  washed  off  entirely 
or  become  so  indistinct  as  to  be  undecipher- 
able. For  that  reason  I'm  now  writing  this 
letter  to  the  kind  exhibitors  at  whose  Para- 
mount theatres  I  have  stopped." 

She  turned  to  the  little  desk  and,  signing 
her  name  to  the  letter  which  she  was  writ- 
ing when  interrupted,  she  smiled  and 
handed  it  to  the  interivewer. 

"Dear  Friends,"  it  said.  "That  I  can 
never  thank  you  for  your  courtesy  and  con- 
sideration during  my  all  too  brief  stay  in 
your  city,  goes  without  saying.  Now  that 
my  trip  is  over  and  I  have  done  what  I 
started  out  to  do,  I  can  look  about  me  and 
think  of  the  many  promises  I  made  to  your 
patrons,  and  in  many  cases  to  members  of 
your  family,  of  photographs  and  such  like 
tokens  of  appreciation. 

"There  have  been  such  a  surprising  num- 
ber of  these  personal  requests  that  I  can't 
remember  them  all.  But  I  don't  want  a 
single  one  disappointed.    Won't  you  throw 


MARJORIE  LAKE,  VAUDEVILLE  STAR. 
NOW  WITH  UNIVERSAL 

Marjorie  Lake,  known  as  "the  little  girl 
with  the  big  voice"  wherever  she  has  ap- 
peared in  big  time  vaudeville,  is  one  of  the 
most  recent  vaudeville  stars  to  take  up  mo- 
tion pictures,  and  is  now  a  permanent  mem- 
ber of  the  Universal  staff. 


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EDITOR'S  NOTE. — It  is  the  desire  of  "'Motion  Picture  News"  to  include  under  this  heading  novel  advertising  ideas,  snccessfnl  schemet 
in  the  management,  decoration  and  equipment  of  the  theatre — everything,  in  fact,  done  by  the  exhibitor  to  stimulate  his  trade. 
We  invite  every  exhibitor  to  write  us  about  any  new  enterprise  he  has;  also  to  come  to  us  for  advice  or  information 
along  any  line.    Address:    Editor,  "Motion  Picture  News,"  220  West  Forty-second  Street,  New  York  City 


THE  EXHIBITOR  AND  THE  NEWSPAPER:  AN  OBJECT 
LESSON  FROM  SEATTLE 


THIS  page  reproduces  part  of  a  ten-foot 
wide  poster  compiled  by  Tom  North, 
manager  of  the  Seattle  office  of  the 
V-L-S-E,  showing  a  few  days'  newspaper 
advertising  placed  by  exhibitors  of  tnal 
city  to  announce  Big  Four  features. 

Three  theatres,  as  will  be  noted  from  the 
illustrations,  use  quarter  pages,  half  pages 
and  full  pages,  with  the  result  that  from  a 
few,  small  inconspicuous  houses  that  alone 
existed  two  years  ago,  there  have  grown 
some  of  the  finest  motion  picture  theatres 
in  the  country. 

These  theatres  are  reported  to  spend  $60,- 
000  a  year  in  newspaper  publicity. 

Seattle  has  a  population  of  300,000.  Ap- 
proximately 300,000  tickets  are  sold  there 
for  feature. photoplays  every  week  at  prices 
ranging  from  10  cents  to  40  cents. 

There  is  a  vital  connection  between  the 
$60,000  expended  w'ith  the  newspapers  and 
the  300,000  tickets  sold  to  picture-goers.  Se- 
attle exhibitors  have  learned  what  that  con- 
nection is — have  learned  that  newspaper  ad- 
vertising is  one  of  the  strongest  links  be- 
tween theatre  and  patron. 

When  exhibitors  in  every  town  in 
America  learn  this  same  lesson,  the  busi- 
ness of  the  motion  picture  industry  will  be 
greatly  multiplied. 

But  there  is  another  striking  fact  brought 
out  by  the  poster.  All  these  advertisements 
appeared  in  one  newspaper — The  Seattle 
Times.  The  Times  is  to  Seattle  exhibitors 
what  the  Evening  Ledger  and  Evening 
Telegraph  are  to  Philadelphia  exhibitors, 
and  the  Daily  Nc'i's  to  Chicago  picture  men. 


That  is  to  say.  The  Times  put  the  han- 
dling of  picture  publicity  on  the  right 
basis.  It  printed  news  of  the  screen  first, 
recognizing  that  its  readers  had  a  right  to 
have  news  about  an  industry  and  a  form  of 
entertainment  that  interested  them  so  much. 
Then  The  Times  got  plenty  of  advertising 
from  Seattle  exhibitors,  because  Seattle  ex- 
hibitors wanted  to  advertise  in  a  newspaper 
that  understood  and  valued  the  claim  of  the 
motion  picture  on  the  public  and  the  won- 
derful response  of  the  public  to  that  claim. 

Today  The  Times  realizes  $5,000  a  month 
from  its  picture  theatre  advertisements 
alone. 

What  The  Times  has  done,  other  news- 
papers can  do,  according  to  their  oppor- 
tunities. And  what  Seattle  exhibitors  can 
do,  exhibitors  the  country  over  can  do,  in 
greater  or  less  degree. 

Exhibitors  in  several  cities  have  already 
gone  to  their  newspapers,  and  put  before 
them  the  whole  question  of  the  newspaper's 
relation  to  motion  pictures.  In  most  in- 
stances, the  papers  have  responded  without 
hesitation,  as  already  told  by  Motiox  Pic- 
ture Xew-s  in  its  department.  "The  Press, 
the  Press  Representative,  and  the  Picture." 

The  movement  for  co-operation  between 
exhibitor  and  newspaper  ought  to  become 
nation-wide. 


Paramount  national  campaign,  using  the  cuts 
furnished  by  the  corporation  to  its  exhibi- 
tors. The  space  costs  him  $1  an  inch,  yet 
Mr.  Quimby  has  used  as  much  as  one-half 
a  page  at  a  time  to  exploit  the  merit  of 
Paramount  Pictures. 

He  has  popularized  the  name  to  such  an 
extent  that  a  cleaning  and  dyeing  establish- 
ment recently  opened  under  the  name  of 
■"The  Paramount  Cleaning  Company,"  and 
a  soda  fountain  has  begun  dispensing 
"Paramount  Sundaes." 


DISPLAYS  TIMED  "STILLS"  OF  FOX 
PICTURES 

Mrs.  Joseph  Grossman,  wife  of  the  man- 
ager of  the  Standard  theatre.  Prospect  ave- 
nue and  East  Eighth  street.  Cleveland,  has 
received  many  compliments  for  the  hand- 
somely tinted  scenes  of  current  attractions 
which  are  given  prominent  display  in  the 
lobby  of  the  theatre. 

Mrs.  Grossman's  hobby  is  painting  and 
tinting.  She  takes  the  ordinary  black  and 
white  "stills'  furnished  by  the  Fox  Film 
Corporation  and  tints  them  in  natural 
colors. 


TIES  UP  HIS  ADVERTISING  TO 
PARAMOUNT  CAMPAIGN 

W.  C.  Quimby,  of  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.,  ad- 
vertises  largelv   in   conjunction   with  the 


"JITNEY   SHOUER'   DRAWS  CROWDS 
AT  LOUISVILLE 

A  live  wire  stunt  used  to  advantage  at 
the  Gayety  theatre.  Louisville,  a  few  days 
ago  was  a  "jitney  shower,"  which  drew  a 
large  gathering  of  the  fair  sex.  Each 
woman  attending  the  afternoon  show  was 
presented  with  a  five  cent  piece  and  this 
proved  a  popular  innovation.  This  theatre 
is  to  have  a  ragtime  piano  playing  contest 
open  to  all  comers.  Cash  prizes  will  be 
awarded. 


PROGRESSIVE  ADVERTISING  BY  EXHIBITORS  IN  A  PROGRESSIVE  NEWSPAPER-THE  SEATTLE  TIMES 


The  SINS  MOTHERS 


A  Vrtagraph  Blue-Ribbon  Feature  _ 

—  ~-  Pwls" 

Story  of  a  Beautiful  Girl  Born  With  ' 
I         a  Passion  for  Gambling  ] 

tTAHTINQ  TODAY  FOR  AN  ENTIRE  WEEK 


AiL  H  A  M  B  R  A 


REPRODUCTION  OF  PART  OF  A  POSTEP.  COMPILED  BY  THE  SEATTLE  V-L-S  E  OFFICE 


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■November  6,  1S!5. 


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i  NEW  MOTION  PICTURE  DEPART-  | 
I  MENTS  IN  NEJf  SPAPERS  | 

I  In  order  that  exhibitors  may  know  1 

i  how  their  fellow  exhibitors  through-  | 

I  out   the   country   are   faring   at   the  | 

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I  PICTURE    NEWS    v.iU   print   from  | 

I  time  to  time  in  this  column  the  names  § 

I  of  papers  which  establish  motion  pic-  1 

I  ture  departments.  i 

1  We  invite  exhibitors  and  newspapers  i 

i  to  help  us  make  this  list  as  complete  i 

I  as  possible.  1 

1  As  a  direct  result  of  the  campaign  | 

I  instituted    bv    MOTION    PICTURE  i 

I  NEWS,  The  World-Herald,  Omaha,  is  | 

I  devoting  page  space  to  picture  news  | 

i  and  advertisements.   The  issue  of  Oct.  1 

i  17  gave  two  whole  pages  to  motion  i 

I  pictures  alone.    A  detailed  analysis  of  | 

1  The  World-Herald's  department  will  | 

I  appear  in  MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS  | 

1  next  week.  g 

I  The  Decatur  Herald,  Decatur,  111.,  | 

I  has  recently  begun  giving  a  page  of  its  | 

I  Sunday  edition  to  picture  news.    The  | 

I  Herald  is  the  first  Decatur  paper  to  I 

I  take  this  forward  step.  1 

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CANDLES  IN  SHOW  WINDOW  AND 
LOBBY  ADVERTISE  FEATURE 

When  the  V-L-S-E  feature,  "The  House 
of  a  Thousand  Candles."  was  shown  at  the 
Orpheum  theatre.  Franklin,  Pa.,  the  ex- 
hibitor engaged  a  show  window,  which  he 
filled  completely  with  candles  of  all  sizes — 
some  in  candlesticks,  some  unsupported  and 
others  carelessly  thrown  around. 

At  night  those  in  the  holders  were  lighted 
and  made  an  unusual  contrast  to  other  elec- 
trically lighted  windows  in  the  vicinity.  A 
small  card  bearing  the  name  of  the  theatre 
where  the  feature  was  engaged,  satisfied  the 
curiosity  of  the  large  number  of  people 
attracted  by  the  display. 

This  same  exhibitor  used  hundreds  of 
candles  to  illuminate  his  lobby  and  his  box 
office  each  night  while  showing  this  feature. 
The  effect  of  the  soft,  mellow  light  was 
quite  unusual,  and  attracted  capacity  busi- 
ness. 


SHIPDRAWING  CONTEST  EXPLOITS 
PATHE  SERIAL 

A  novel  business  building  contest  used  by 
the  Olympic  theatre,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  as 
part  of  an  advertising  campaign  to  exploit 
the  Pathe  serial,  '"Neal  of  the  Navy,"'  has 
been  reported  by  Manager  C.  E.  Holah,  of 
the  Cincinnati  Pathe  exchange.  Patrons  of 
the  theatre  were  asked  to  take  part  in  a 
ship-drawing  contest.  To  the  one  who 
drew  the  best  pen-and-ink  or  lead  pencil 
sketch  of  a  U.  S.  battleship,  the  manage- 
ment of  the  theatre  offered  $10  in  cash. 
The  second  prize  was  $2  and  the  third  $1. 
Conditions  of  the  contest  were  that  the 
drawings  must  be  turned  in  not  later  than 
Sunday  of  the  picture's  run. 

Prizes  were  awarded  at  the  matinee  of 
the  same  day.  Prominent  merchants  of 
Louisville  were  the  judges. 


DALLAS  FAIR  ADVERTISED  BY  FILM 
FEATURING  CONTEST  WINNER 

As  the  result  of  a  beauty  contest  con- 
ducted by  the  Old  Mill  theatre,  Dallas,  20,- 
000  votes  were  cast  by  picture  patrons  for 


Mildred  Milliken  as  the  most  beautiful 
woman  in  that  city.  Miss  Milliken  is  fea- 
tured in  a  moving  picture  now  being  used 
to  advertise  the  State  Fair  at  Dallas.  Ben 
B.  Lewis,  manager  of  the  Old  Mill,  super- 
vised the  production,  which  was  directed 
by  Talbot  O.  Bateman,  Sunday  editor  of 
The  Dallas  "News." 

The  film  is  entitled  "The  Spirit  of  the 
Fair."  Double  exposures  were  required  to 
show  Miss  Milliken,  as  a  spirit,  hovering 
over  and  gliding  through  the  exposition 
buildings. 


RIDER  LEADS  NEW    HAVEN  CROWDS 
TO  "MAN  TRAIL" 

A  man  in  the  uniform  of  a  cavalrjman 
was  the  object  of  curious  glances  as  he 
rode  down  Chapel  street,  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.  People  followed  him  and  stared, 
then  laughed  and  started  in  one  general  di- 
rection— toward  the  Bijou  theatre. 

What  had  most  attracted  their  attention 
was  a  white  banner,  hung  across  either 
flank  of  the  horse,  and  announcing  in  large, 
red  letters  that  the  rider  was  "following 
'The  Man  Trail'  to  the  Bijou." 

In, front  of  the  theatre  there  is  an  electric 
clock,  giving  at  all  hours  the  correct  time 
and  having  printed  above  "Just  in  time  for 
the  show."  The  legend  is  changed  each 
week.  Below  are  painted  clocks,  with  mov 
able  hands,  and  under  each  is  printed  the 
hour  at  which  the  first,  second  and  third- 
picture  programs,  and  the  first,  second  and 
third  vaudeville  shows  commence. 


INTRODUCES  NOVEL  PRELUDE  TO 
TOPICAL  REVIEW 

Manager  Bossner,  of  the  Park  theatre, 
Boston,  has  introduced  a  novel  prelude  to 
the  Park  Topical  Review.  A  witch  rides 
across  the  sky  and  scatters  the  stars,  then 
striking  the  moon  out  of  the  picture  with 
her  broom.  Then  she  summons  other  stars, 
which  form  a  big  one,  and  then  dissolve 
into  the  words  "Park  Topical  Review." 

That  this  novelty  is  worth  while  is  proved 
by  the  applause  from  every  audience. 


1  HOUSE  ORGAN  SERIES  NO.  5:  A  CALEN-  1 
I  DAR  USEFUL  TO  PATRONS  I 


One  page  of  the  Weekly  Magazine  published  by  the 
Camden  Theatre.  Parkersburg,  W.  Va.  The  arrange- 
ments of  features  by  days  is  extellent.  Note  the 
short  descriptions  under  each  title.  The  typography 
is  clear.  Ei^hibitors  who  issue  small  house  organs 
can  adopt  this  plan  witli  advantage.  Patrons  will 
appreciate  it. 


NATIONAL    THEATRE,  LYNCHBURG, 
OFFERS  AUTO  AS  PRIZE 

The  National  theatre.  Lynchburg,  Va., 
pictures  of  which  were  published  in  Mo- 
tion Picture  News  recently,  is  getting  into 
the  limelight  through  the  medium  of  a  con- 
test in  which  a  five-passenger  Maxwell 
automobile  is  offered  to  the  most  popular 
lady  in  Lynchburg. 

Votes  will  determine  the  winner,  and 
several  organizations  are  working  con- 
certedly  to  win  the  prize. 


A  LIVE  WIRE  STUNT  THAT  BROUGHT  NEWSPAPER  PUBLICITY 


250  Sailors  and  Marines  from  U.  S.  S.  "Albany,"  "Charleston,"  "Pittsburgh"  and  "West 
Virginia,"  in  Front  of  Pantages  Theatre,  Seattle,  Where  as  Guests  of  Manager  Pantages  and 
F.  C.  Quimby,  of  the  Seattle  Pathe  Office,  They  Saw  "Neal  of  the  Navy."  They  Were  Brought 
in  a  Body  from  the  Navy  Yard  at  Bremerton,  Wash.,  on  the  U.  S.  S.  "Pawtucket"  for  the 
occasion.    Seattle  Newspapers  Gave  Generous  Space  to  the  Event. 


Productions  to  be  Presented  NEXT  WEEK 


MONDAY 

•TKX  OKAUCX  or  COnAOK"   ...WIU  imTZ.X  OOVU1.ZB 

A  pIcturrsQUF.  spectacular  prvMDtatlon  of  aaotbep  BU>ry  by  Cyrus 
Townsend  Brady,  who  wrote  "The  Island  Of  Beffeneratlon".     Ii  was 
produced  by  Viiasrauh.  and  1b  released  cn  the  V-L-S-E  prograin. 
Onl7  roar  rarfonnaneaa  Umlsaloa 
1:00    AfterncHin    4,00  Afterooon  and  Evenlne 

7:00     Evening      9  00  10c  and  ISc 

PRODUCTIO.M  IN  BIX  ACTS, 

TUESDAY 

-wxama  tkb  tkaxx.  srm>s«"  wita  ftOBBmr  xDxaov 

One  of  America's  foreciost  dramatic  actors,  in  an  elaborately  pro- 
duced version  of  Stewart  Edward  WhJte'e  dramatic  at^ry  of  the 
Canadian  wooda 

rrodQction  tn  rtva  Acta.  rrodaoad  br  ramooa  Playaia 

WEDNESDAY 

"Tn  ZXPIAKEX"   ,  With  U>U-TSIiXiEaA> 

Sftrah  Bcrnhardt'B  rormet  l«fldlng  mftn  here  mak«a  hl^  photoplay 
debut,  star  of  the  famous  dnimfi  by  the  coted  English  drumailsl. 
Wlltlam  Someriet  MauKbo. 
rrodootlon  to  Tlrm  Aott,  ProdaoAd        Jmu  L  iMkr 

THURSDAY 

"■XOVZoO  A  XUTBXB  TMl^"  Vltk  UTTT  WAMntM 

The  royal  actress  In  the  third  and  Krrat«Bt  ft  her  Bucceasee,  a.  play 
that   vividly   dramatizee   the   Question  that    toothers  or  all  ac*> 
have  had  ta  a«k  tbemselvM. 
rr*dB«tlos  is  riT*  Acta.  ProdoMd  bj  WUUav  Vox. 

FRIDAY 

'TWAS  BVB»  TMUB"  With  tOMXM  JAJnS 

One  of  America's  most  popular  and  most  Buccessful  actresses  in 
her  fourth  and  last  appearaoce  for  the  acreeo.  Id  this  play,  aa  Id 
others  previously,  she  Is  supported  by  Owen  Uooro  and  Uyrlle  , 
Steadman. 

Pi«dBatlo&  la  «»•  Acta.  rrodoead  by  Bonr«rth. 

SATURDAY 

'VKZ  DZOTATOB"  With  JOKK  BABmTWOU 

The  roost  successful  etralgbt  comedian  on  the  screen.  In  a  swift- 
moving,  laughable  pleturliatlon  of  Richard  Harding  Davie'  famous 

pTodvotloB  ta  Tlv*  Acta.  P'^ndnoad  by  Fauoas  Playw. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


VoL  12.    No.  18. 


^be  UNIVERSAL  announce 


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In  the  Greatest  Series-Serial  Novelty  Ever^ 
Filmed-  Being  an  Elaborate  Presentation  of 
"The  NEW  ADVENTURES  of 

TERENCE  O'ROURKE' 


Written  by  Louis  Joseph  Vance — Direction  of  Jacques  Jaccard 

A  genuine  novelty  that  will  pleaise  every  one  of  the  millions  of  f:ms  who  enjoy  the  vigorous 
acting  of  this  famous  screen  star. 

Here's  a  chance  to  clean  up.    Here  is  J.  Warren  Kerrigsm  in  a  brand  new  serial,  being 
three  two-reel  installments  of  the  "New  Adventures  of  Terence  O'Rourke,"  a  character 
that  fits  Kerrigan's  hjmdsome  personedity  like  a  glove.    Thrilling,  adventurous  deeds 
of  daring  and  ardent  lovemediing  that  will  drive  the  fans  wild  with  delight. 

Written  by  Louis  Joseph  Vance,  the  most  popular  writer  of  entertaining  fictioD 
of  tl:e  day,  this  novelty  Series-Serial  offers  advertising  possibilities  never  be- 
fore surpassed.    It  will  be  released  in  two-reel  installments  immediately  edter 
the  completion  of  the  "Broken  Coin." 

Three  smashing  installments  which  will  pack  your  house  before  the  open- 
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a  drawing  card.    Write,  or,  better  still,  wire  your  Exchange  for 
immediate  booking  and  release  dates. 

Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Co. 

Carl  Laemmle,  President 
"The  Largest  Film  Manuf actnring  Concern 
in  the  Uaiverse" 


1600  BROADWAY 


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MOTION    PICTURE    NEWS  Vol.  12.   No.  18. 


OPTIMISTIC  REPORTS  OF  BUSINESS  CONDITIONS  FROM 
ALL  BOSTON  EXCHANGES 


MANAGER  M.\RSAN.  of  the  Kleine- 
Edison  office  on  Piedmont  street,  Bos- 
ton, reports  that  business  is  big.  The 
Kleine-Edison  pictures  are  meeting  with  an 
increased  demand  throughout  New  Eng- 
land, and  it  has  been  necessary  for  Mr. 
Marson  to  add  another  road  man  to  his 
force.  .  The  new  man  is  Jerome  H.  Sobel, 
formerly  of  the  World  and  the  Big  Four 
in  New  York.  He  will  represent  the  Kleine- 
Edison  office  through  Maine.  The  Boston 
theatre  has  begun  to  use  Kleine-Edison  fea- 
tures, taking  on  recently  "The  Magic  Skin." 
The  Bijou  at  Springfield  has  also  recently 
taken  first  run  features  from  the  Kleine- 
Edison  service. 

There's  a  new  man  at  the  helm  in  the 
World  office  in  Boston,  or  rather  a  man 
who  has  been  on  the  job  before,  is  back 
again.  Frank  H.  Vine,  who  resigned  as 
manager  of  the  World  exchange  earlier  this 
year  to  conduct  the  Olympia  Film  Company, 
has  now  left  that  company  and  returned 
to  the  World  as  manager,  in  place  of  Stan- 
ley W.  Hand,  who  has  been  promoted  to 
the  New  York  office.  Mr.  Hand  came  to 
Boston  as  a  World  salesman  last  Spring, 
and  in  July  he  was  made  manager.  He 
went  to  New  York  last  Friday. 

The  World  office  gives  the  same  opti- 
mistic reports  of  business  conditions  in  the 
Boston  territory  as  mark  the  enthusiasm 
of  other  exchanges.  Lewis  J.  Selznick  him- 
self and  George  J.  Schaefifer,  eastern  divi- 
sion manager,  visited  Boston  recently. 

There  have  been  several  additions  to  the 
force  of  World  salesmen.  W.  H.  Fulwood, 
who  has  been  publicity  man  working  from 
the  Boston  office,  has  gone  on  the  road, 
covering  the  larger  cities  in  Massachusetts, 
S.  J.  Brodie,  formerly  of  the  Frohman  ex- 
change in  Boston,  is  about  to  start  on  a 
trip  through  Maine  for  the  World.  L.  H. 
Raymond  has  been  added  to  the  force,  cov- 
ering places  down  toward  Cape  Cod,  and 
J.  O'Brien,  formerly  with  the  Mutual,  is 
now  selling  World  film. 

The  Boston  office  has  just  installed  a  new 
Powers  6-A  projection  machine,  which  will 
make  the  run-ofTs  Wednesdays  and  Fridays 
more  pleasing  to  the  exhibitors.  Manager 
Vine  is  planning  to  leave  October  31  to  at- 
tend the  convention  of  World  managers  at 
Chicago. 

The  New  England  Fox  Exchange  contin- 
ues to  boom  along  with  remarkable  busi- 
ness. The  News  man  dropped  in  the  other 
day  just  as  Manager  Campbell  had  received 
new  contracts  for  Fox  service  in  the  Prin- 
cess theatre  at  Marlboro,  Empire  at  St. 
Albans,  Vt.,  Davis  at  Norwich,  Harvard  at 
North  Cambridge,  New  Majestic  at  Rum- 
ford,  Me.,  Palace  at  Fall  River.  Orpheum 


and  City  in  Brockton ;  second  run  at  the 
Bijou,  Springfield,  Bijou  in  Skowhegan, 
Me.,  Empire  in  Lewiston,  and  Princess  in 
Berlin,  N.  H.,  and  Empire  in  North  .^dams. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  about  ready  to  take  on 
more  office  help.  He  has  just  remodeled  his 
paper  room. 


BUSINESS  ON  UPWARD  TREND  IN 
PHILADELPHIA  DISTRICT 

T.  W.  Pope,  manager  of  the  Continental 
Film  Corporation,  has  been  in  Harrisburg 
for  a  few  days  on  business  connected  with 
the  Mutual  Masterpictures,  which  are  han- 
dled by  the  Continental  in  Philadelphia  and 
by  the  Mutual  Service  offices  in  Harris- 
burg. 

Mr.  Pope,  like  all  the  Quaker  City  man- 
agers, finds  business  on  the  upward  trend. 
In  the  last  month  an  increase  of  twenty- 
five  per  cent,  has  made  itself  apparent. 

"The  Aliracle  of  Life,"  an  American  re- 
lease, with  Margarita  Fischer,  has  been 
passed  by  the  censors  with  very  slight 
changes,  and  even  before  its  first  appear- 
ance in  Philadelphia  is  being  largely 
booked. 

J.  W.  Pierce,  formerly  connected  with 
the  Continental,  has  after  a  short  absence 
renewed  his  affiliation  with  the  firm  as 
road  man  for  the  Mutual  Masterpictures  in 
the  eastern  district. 

Charles  Campbell,  formerly  manager  of 
the  Blinkhorn  company,  now  defunct,  has 
become  city  solicitor  for  the  Mutual  Cor- 
poration, and  although  only  a  few-  weeks 
in  this  position,  is  making  a  success  of  the 
venture. 

Both  Continental  and  Mutual  offices  are 
awaiting  the  completion  of  their  new- 
building  which  is  promised  by  December. 

This  move  will  bring  the  last  of  the  big 
companies  to  the  recognized  film  district 
in  Philadelphia — the  neighborhood  of  Vine 
street,  between  Broad  and  Twelfth. 


$1,000  AUTO  FOR  BEST  BUSINESS- 
GETTER 

One  of  the  five  road  men  for  Manager 
Sam  A.  Adler,  of  the  Exclusive  Feature 
E.xchange  in  Omaha,  will  get  a  $1,000  au- 
tomobile on  New  Year's  Day.  To  get  it 
all  he  has  to  do  is  to  sell  more  pictures, 
getting  the  money  for  them,  than  any  other 
of  the  five. 

Manager  Adler  keeps  quiet  as  to  who 
is  in  the  lead,  leaving  each  man  wondering 
whether  he  is.  "Instead  of  coming  in  Fri- 
day night  to  stay  they  spend  just  as  little 
time  in  the  home  office  as  possible,"  said 
Mr.  Adler.  "Their  time  is  spent  out  get- 
ting business,  and  they  are  getting  it." 


OMAHA  EXCHANGE  FINDS  PUBLICITY 
DEPARTMENT  VALUABLE 

^Manager  F.  A.  \'an  Husan,  of  the  Uni- 
versal Film  Exchange  in  Omaha,  has  in- 
stalled Jake  Mitchell  as  head  of  a  newly 
established  publicity  department.  Mitchell 
has  made  a  study  of  the  publicity  w-ork 
from  the  exchange  end.  He  writes  the  ad- 
vertisements, letters  and  posters  for  his 
exchange,  as  part  of  his  work.  His  im- 
portant duty-,  however,  is  to  furnish  help 
in  an  advertising  way  to  any  e.Khibitor  who 
desires  it. 

Several  exhibitors  call  upon  him  regu- 
larly to  write  their  ads  for  the  newspapers. 
Others,  when  they  are  going  to  get  out 
hand  bills  or  posters,  seek  his  advice.  His 
department  became  popular  at  once.  He 
also  sends  out  weekly  letters  to  the  trade. 
This  is  the  first  of  such  departments  in  the 
Omaha  exchanges.  It  promises  to  be  a  big 
success. 

Manager  Van  Husan,  with  J.  J.  Mc- 
Carthy, his  Iowa  representative,  is  taking 
a  month's  trip  over  the  state,  calling  upon 
exhibitors.  "A  personal  interview  is  worth 
more  than  all  the  letters  in  creation,"  \'an 
Husan  wrote  the  exhibitors,  telling  them 
of  his  coming.  He  ended  the  letter:  "Am 
I  welcome?' 

J.  McLean,  of  New  York,  traveling 
auditor  for  the  Pathe  company,  was  in 
Omaha.  Neb.,  the  other  week.  "Conditions 
here  are  excellent."  he  said. 


MUTUAL  IN  NASHVILLE  MOVES  INTO 
LARGER  OFFICES 

Increase  of  business  has  compelled  the 
Mutual  branch  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  to  move 
into  larger  quarters.  The  new  offices  will 
be  located  at  500  South  Main  street. 

The  increase  in  sales  of  Mutual  pictures 
in  this  location  is  due  to  the  excellent  man- 
agement of  Carl  Stearn,  who  has  intro- 
duced several  new  selling  plans  in  the 
Nashville  territorv. 


WALES  MANAGES  EASTERN  NEW  YORK 
FOR  PICTURE  PLAYHOUSE 

H.  C.  Wales,  formerly  manager  of  the 
General  Film  Company  at  Albany,  N.  Y., 
has  opened  an  office  at  4  Clinton  avenue,  in 
that  cit}-,  and  is  managing  the  territory  in 
the  Eastern  part  of  the  state  for  the  Pic- 
ture Playhouse  Film  Company,  with  offices 
at  Svracuse.  N.  Y. 


CLEVELAND  THEATRE  MAN  RESIGNS 
TO  JOIN  GENERAL  FILM 
Manager  Charles  A.  Garner,  of  the 
Princess  theatre,  Cleveland,  has  resigned. 
He  will  go  to  Cincinnati  to  become  identi- 
fied with  the  General  Film  Company. 


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METRO  TO  CONDUCT  TWO  CONTESTS 
FOR  CANADIANS 

Metro  pictures  were  introduced  in  two 
Canadian  cities  last  week  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Metro  Pictures  Limited,  which  is 
the  new  Canadian  company  controlling  the 
film  productions  of  the  Metro  Pictures  Cor- 
poration in  Canada.  The  first  run  in  Mon- 
treal was  at  the  Imperial  theare,  one  of  the 
largest  of  the  houses  there,  while  Metro's 
"The  Right  of  Way,"  a  Canadian  romance 
by  Sir  Gilbert  Parker,  was  shown  at  the 
Strand  theatre,  Toronto. 

Simultaneously  with  the  Metro  introduc- 
tions came  the  announcement  that  two  pop- 
ular contests  would  be  conducted  for  prizes 
aggregating  $5,000.  Three-fifths  of  this 
sum  is  to  go  for  awards  in  a  "popular  opin- 
ion contest"  in  which  theatre  patrons  will 
be  asked  to  be  the  critics  of  the  first  twenty- 
six  Metro  pictures  to  be  shown  in  Canada. 
Two  thousand  dollars  is  offered  in  a  Pa- 
triotic Scenario  Contest,  participants  in 
which  are  required  to  write  scenarios  for 
recruiting  films.  The  winning  play  is  to  be 
produced  in  Canada  under  the  direction  of 
Edwin  Bower  Hesser. 

The  Canadian  company  was  organized  by 
Herbert  Lubin,  formerly  head  of  the  Allied 
Features,  Inc.,  and  he  has  become  managing 
director.  Canadians  interested  in  the  new 
organization  include  Paul  Galibert.  leather 
manufacturer  and  steamship  owner ;  A.  N. 
Brodeur,  fish  merchant ;  Arthur  Ecrement, 
an  ex-member  of  Parliament,  and  D.  H. 
Brown,  president  and  general  manager  of 
the  Prudential  Trust  Company  of  Canada. 
H.  M.  Brown,  son  of  D.  H.  Brown,  is  sec- 
retary-treasurer of  Metro  Pictures  Limited. 

Arrangements  have  been  made  to  show 
Metro  pictures  in  three  different  Montreal 
theatres. 


McMAHAN,  CINCINNATI,  WINNER  IN 
AUTOMOBILE  PARADE 

1.  W.  McMahan,  of  the  firm  of  Mc- 
Mahan  &  Jackson,  took  the  first  prize  in 
the  automobile  parade  held  in  Norwood, 
Cincinnati,  Saturday,  October  16,  against 
over  200  beautifully  decorated  cars. 

His  car  was  covered  with  white  folded 
crepe  paper,  decorated  all  over  with  laven- 
der roses.  Suspended  on  three  long  nickel- 
plated  rods  were  three  large  white  doves. 
Ribbons  trailed  from  the  doves'  mouths 
tack  to  an  extra  high  arranged  seat  on 
the  rear  of  the  car  to  Baby  Gladys  Mc- 
Mahan, who  was  supposed  to  be  driving 
the  doves,  and  the.  doves  supposed  to  be 
flying  with  the  machine. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  Mr.  McMahan 
took  the  first  prize  in  Cincinnati  a  few 
years  ago  at  the  Ohio  Valley  Exposition 
parade,  which  was  the  largest  automobile 
parade  ever  held  in  the  state  of  Ohio. 


JUDELL,  CHICAGO  MUTUAL  MANAGER, 
ON  FREULER'S  EFFICIENCY  STAFF 

B.  N.  Judell  has  been  appointed  general 
manager  of  the  Chicago  Mutual  Film 
•offices.  Mr.  Judell  has  also  been  made  a 
member  of  President  Freuler's  efficiency 
committee  of  three.  In  the  latter  capacity 
"he  will  be  called  upon  to  inject  energy  into 
exchanges  falling  behind  the  Mutual  stand- 
ard of  efficiency. 


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I  "MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS"  HELPS  | 
I  HIM  TO  BE  AN  EXCELLENT  | 
I  SALESMAN  | 

I  "We  do  not  wonder  at  the  prog-  | 

I  ress  of  your  exchange  if  you  have  i 

I  many  salesmen  like  Heyman,"  read  a  1 

i  letter  to  Manager  Ph.  Goldstone  of  the  | 

I  World  exchange  in  Omaha,  from  the  | 

I  headquarters   office   in   Chicago,   the  | 

1  other  day.    "We  note  Heyman's  name  | 

1  on  a  big  percentage  of  the  contracts  | 

1  mailed  us.    It  looks  like  he  might  be  | 

I  in  line  for  one  of  our  prizes  soon."  i 

I  "Do  you  want  to  know  Heyman's  | 

I  characteristic?"  asked  Goldstone,  after  | 

I  showing   the   letter.     "He   comes  in  | 

i  every  Saturday  morning.   After  saying  i 

1  'Howdy,'  around  the  office,  chatting  | 

I  with  me  a  few  minutes  and  setting  his  i 

I  traveling  case  in  the  corner,  he  goes  to  | 

i  the  files  and  takes  out  his  copy  of  1 

1  "Motion    Picture    News."     I'm    just  | 

I  observing  enough  to  believe  that  is  | 

i  one  source  of  his  ability  as  a  sales-  1 

1  man,  so  you  can't  blame  me  for  ask-  i 

I  ing  my  other  men  to  read  it,  can  you?"  | 

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BETTER  NAME  FOR  MODERN  PICTURE 
THEATRE  SOUGHT  BY  CANADIAN 
UNIVERSAL  AND  EXHIBITOR 

The  Canadian  Universal  Film  Company, 
Ltd.,  believing  that  the  motion  picture 
theatre  itself  should  have  a  more  appro- 
priate name,  and  one  which  would  more 
befit  the  present  excellence  and  quality  of 
the  modern  theatre  showing  high-class 
films  than  the  terms,  "Nickel  Shows," 
"Movies,"  "Picture  Houses,"  "Picture 
Shows,"  etc.,  none  of  which  seem  to  fit  the 
better  class  of  houses  today,  decided  to 
obtain  some  name  which  will  meet  the  re- 
quirements of  the  up-to-date  picture  house. 

With  this  end  in  view  the  Park  theatre, 
one  of  Toronto's  largest  and  finest  motion 
picture  houses,  is  going  to  co-operate  with 
the  Canadian  Universal  by  means  of  printed 
hand-bills  and  special  announcement  slides, 
setting  forth  the  fact  that  the  management 
will  offer  a  prize  for  the  best  name  sug- 
gested to  them  to  designate  a  motion  pic- 
ture theatre.  The  name  must  not  be  more 
than  two  words  and  be  applicable  to  the- 
atres throughout  the  entire  country. 


EMMICK  WILL  OPEN  PLAYHOUSE 
EXCHANGE  ON  COAST 

E.  H.  Emmick,  of  Los  Angeles,  one 
of  the  most  popular  and  successful  ex- 
changemen  in  the  country,  has  left  New 
York,  after  concluding  negotiations  with 
the  Picture  Playhouse  Company  to  open 
up  offices  for  this  concern  on  the  Pa- 
cific Coast. 

W.  O.  Edmunds,  formerly  with  George 
Kleine  in  Los  Angeles,  has  been  ap- 
pointed manager  of  the  Kleine  branch  in 
Kansas  City. 


"NATION"  ROADMAN  BECOMES  HOUSE 
ADVERTISING  MANAGER 

Will  T.  Reed,  of  Seattle,  has  succeeded 
J.  B.  Bartleson  as  advertising  manager  of 
the  Casino.  Spokane,  Wash.  Mr.  Bartleson 
took  "The  Birth  of  a  Nation"  to  Portland 
for  the  Clemmer  Brothers,  of  Seattle  and 
Spokane,  and  then  was  transferred  to  the 
Puget  Sound  city  permanently. 


NEW  MANAGER  OF  WOkLD  EXCHANGE 
FOR  BUSINESS  PRINCIPLES 

The  Washington  exchange  of  the  World 
Film  Corporation  has  a  new  manager 
in  the  person  of  C.  W.  Bunn.  This  has 
been  occasioned  by  Henry  E.  Friedman,  the 
former  manager,  stepping  into  road  work 
for  this  territory.  Mr.  Bunn  has  gained 
all  his  film  experience  from  the  World 
Film  Corporation,  with  which  he  has  been 
associated  for  the  past  six  months,  and  he 
comes  here  from  the  Boston  exchange. 
Previous  to  that  he  was  associated  with  a 
big  watch  concern. 

Speaking  of  his  entrance  and  quick  rise 
in  the  motion  picture  arena,  Mr.  Bunn  had 
this  to  say :  "I  do  not  look  upon  the  film 
business  as  a  theatrical  business  at  all;  in 
fact,  that  is  not  my  province  with  it  any- 
way. I  view  it  in  the  light  of  any  other 
commercial  enterprise,  where  a  manufac- 
turer has  a  certain  commodity  to  market. 
I  have  films  to  sell  to  the  exhibitors  and 
their  sale  depends  upon  their  quality  and 
their  fitness  for  the  exhibitor.  It  is  my 
business  to  see  that  the  exhibitor  gets  the 
value  of  his  money  for  the  films  purchased 
by  selling  him  a  commodity  (which  is  a 
film)  that  will  fill  his  theatre.  For  the 
exhibitors,  from  my  viewpoint,  has  seats  to 
sell  and  it  is  his  business  to  buy  an  article 
which  will  fill  them. 

"And  so  I  have  brought  my  same  business 
principles  of  watch  salesmanship  into  the 
film  exchange." 


HAPPENINGS  OF  INTEREST  IN  FILM 
OFFICES  AT  ST.  LOUIS 

Floyd  Lewis,  of  the  Triangle,  while  wait- 
ing for  his  offices  to  be  completed  in  the 
new  building  at  the  junction  of  Locust  and 
Olive  streets,  has  amused  himself  by  going 
out  into  the  byways  of  Missouri,  Kansas 
and  Oklahoma  and  taking  orders  for  "fu- 
tures" in  films.  The  amount  of  business  he 
got  was  very  satisfactory,  and  Mr.  Lewis 
says  big  features  are  not  losing  their  popu- 
larity in  the  Mississippi  Valley. 

The  Mutual  Exchange  of  St.  Louis  has 
established  a  branch  at  Cairo,  111.,  with 
Leonard  Brown  as  head  of  the  office.  Fred 
Keller,  St.  Louis  manager,  is  pleased  with 
the  increased  business  of  the  branch  during 
the  short  time  it  has  been  going. 


E.  AND  G.,  HANDLING  ASSOCIATED, 
REPORTS  SUCCESS 

Monroe  Isen,  who  has  charge  of  the  As- 
sociated Program  for  New  York,  reports 
that  since  the  E.  &  G.  have  signed  up  for 
the  program,  the  business  has  more  than 
doubled,  and  they  find  they  are  taxed  al- 
most to  their  limits  in  supplying  the  de- 
mand of  the  New  York  exhibitors. 


ASSOCIATED  ARRANGES  FOR  LARGER 
OUTPUT 

D.  L.  Burke  and  N.  D.  Smith  of  the  As- 
sociated Film  Sales  Corporation,  made  a 
hurried  trip  to  the  Coast  to  make  arrange- 
ments for  a  larger  output,  as  the  Associated 
Program  is  in  such  demand  that  the  firm 
is  endeavoring  to  make  its  output  larger. 
Its  present  companies  are  working  to 
capacity. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol  12.    No.  18. 


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I   EXCHANGE  MANAGER  TELLS  HIS  | 

I   ROADMEN  TO  READ  THE  "NEWS"  | 

1  Manager  Joe  Levy  of  the  Fox  branch  | 

I  in  Omaha  wants  it   understood    that  | 

1  Ph.  Goldstone,  manager  of  the  World  | 

1  exchange  in  the  same  city,  is  not  the  | 

=  only  one  who  gives  his  new  roadmen  f 

i  an  initial  bit  of  advice  about  reading  | 

j  "Motion  Picture  News."  | 

1  "I  am  going  to  put  Charles  Manfre,  1 

I  one  of  my  headquarters  men,  out  on  i 

I  the  road,"  said  Levy,  "and  for  several  1 

I  weeks  Manfre  has  been  reading  the  i 

i  'News'  until  now  he  is  better  posted."  i 

i  Ph.  Goldstone  has  hired  A.  Kahn  i 

i  as  a  new  roadman.   "In  order  to  make  i 

1  a  success,  you've  got  to  keep  in  touch  i 

I  with  the  field,    Mr.  Goldstone    told  | 

i  me,"  said  Kahn.    "Then  he  told  me  | 

I  to  read  'Motion  Picture  News'  from  i 

I  cover  to  cover.    I  am,  and  I  want  to  i 

I  tell  other  salesmen  everywhere  that  it  | 

I  helps."  1 

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GOLDSTEIN  ON  EXTENSIVE  TOUR  OF 
VNIVERSAL  EXCHANGES 

"Manny"  Goldstein,  who  was  recently  ap- 
pointed assistant  to  the  general  manager 
of  Universal  Exchanges,  has  left  on  an  ex- 
tensive trip  through  the  west  and  north- 
west, visiting  the  exchanges  in  these  sec- 
tions of  the  country.  He  will  probably  be 
gone  several  months  and  will  stay  there 
until  he  has  closed  some  big  contracts. 

The  object  of  his  trip  is  to  build  up  the 
business  in  these  territories  and  familiarize 
himself  with  conditions  in  that  part  of  the 
country. 

Before  taking  up  his  new  duties,  Gold- 
stein was  manager  of  the  Mecca  Branch  of 
the  New  York  Exchange  and  previous  to 
that  was  assistant  to  M.  H.  Hofifman  when 
the  latter  was  general  manager  of  the  New 
York  Excliange. 


INDIANA  EXCHANGE  MEN  TO  GREET 
ROTHAPFEL  AT  BANQUET 

M.  M.  Miller,  manager  of  the  Mutual 
Film  Corporation's  Indianapolis  office,  is 
planning  to  entertain  S.  L.  Rothapfel,  for- 
merly manager  of  the  Strand  theatre  in 
New  York,  and  the  new  managing  director 
of  the  Rialto  theatre,  when  he  comes  to  In- 
dianapolis on  November  20  in  his  tour  of 
the  larger  cities  of  the  country  before  as- 
suming his  new  position. 

Mr.  Miller  plans  to  give  a  banquet  at  the 
Claypool  Hotel  for  Mr.  Rothapfel,  when  all 
the  exchange  men  of  Indiana  will  be  invited 
to  attend. 

MIDDLE  WEST  EXHIBITORS  MAKING 
BFTTER  DISPLAYS,  SAYS  LEVY 

"I've  sold  more  paper  recently  than  I 
ever  sold  in  an  equal  time  before,"  said  Joe 
Levy,  manager  of  the  Omaha,  Neb.,  Fox 
exchange.  "Exhibitors  in  the  middle  west 
are  going  paper  crazy.  More  twenty-four 
sheets  arc  being  used.  In  some  towns  the 
bill-boards  are  decorated  with  motion  pic- 
ture posters  just  as  they  were  always  deco- 
rated with  circus  posters.  The  displays  in 
front  of  the  houses  show  more  real  taste, 
too,  and  this  attracts  the  people  who  were 
becoming  disgusted  with  the  gaudy  thrillers 
smeared  all  over  tin-  front  of  a  building. 


"There's  a  big  chance  to  improve  the 
public's  taste  right  in  the  displays.  And  I 
am  glad  to  see  the  exhibitors  are  realizing 
it." 


IMPORTANT  ADDITION   TO  FAMOUS 
PLAYERS  PERSONNEL 

An  important  addition  has  been  made  to 
the  force  of  the  Famous  Players  Film 
Service  of  Pittsburgh  by  the  appointment 
of  Charles  S.  Nordie  as  general  sales  man- 
ager. 

Mr.  Nordie  is  a  specialist  in  systematiz- 
ing business,  developing  and  directing  sales 
forces  and  has  for  a  number  of  years  been 
connected  with  some  of  the  leading  con- 
cerns of  the  country  in  the  capacity  of 
merchandise  counselor. 

He  has  had  a  wide  experience  in  adver- 
tising and  will  look  after  that  end  of  the 
Famous  Players'  business. 


NEWS  NOTES  OF  DALLAS  EXCHANGES 

Sam  Denbon,  division  manager  of  the 
Fox  Film  Corporation,  arrived  in  Dallas. 

S.  G.  Sladdin,  special  representative  of 
the  Fox  Film  Corporation,  left  for  a  short 
trip.  Manager  Byrd  is  also  away  closing 
contracts. 

Nate  Barash  left  for  Oklahoma  points. 

Special  Representative  C.  F.  Schwerin, 
of  the  Fox  forces,  left  for  New  Orleans, 
and  will  visit  the  Atlanta  and  Washington 
offices.  Joe  Klein,  of  the  World  Film  Cor- 
poration is  in  Dallas. 


MISS  MARGETTS  A  NEW  UNIVERSAL 
"STAR" 

Mr.  Margetts,  manager  of  the  Universal 
Film  Exchange  at  St.  John,  N.  B.,  an- 
nounces the  arrival  of  a  new  member  of 
the  family  in  the  person  of  a  little  Miss 
Margetts. 


D COOPER  of  Toronto,  manager  of 
•     George  Kleine's  Canadian  interests, 
was  a  visitor  in  New  York  last  week. 

"It's  the  usual  question,"  said  Mr. 
Cooper  in  response  to  an  inquiry.  "Canada 
is  neither  bankrupt  or  going  to  be.  Busi- 
ness in  Toronto  is  'fair-to-middlin'  in  the 
parlance  of  Missouri  and  the  picture  busi- 
ness is  exceptionally  good.  If  you  could 
see  the  number  of  big,  new  houses  going 
up  in  my  territory  you  would  not  think  the 
War  God  such  a  demon  commerce  destroyer 
as  he"s  generally  supposed  to  be.  Now  and 
then  a  one-legged  soldier,  fresh  from  the 
battle  field,  .stumps  down  King  street  and 
promptly  becomes  the  cynosure  of  curious 
eyes ;  and  every  little  while  a  Highlander 
fife  and  drum  corps  goes  gaily  by  in  search 
of  recruits.  But  these  are  the  only  ex- 
ternal evidences  of  the  war  unless  you 
count  a  few  theatres  in  the  poorer  section 
of  the  city  which  have  reduced  admission 
prices  from  ten  to  five  cents. 

"Intelligent  exhibitors  are  making  money 
just  as  usual.  Take  the  beautiful  Strand 
theatre  for  example.  Mr.  IMarvin.  whom 
I  regard  as  one  of  the  shrewdest  exhibitors 
in  America,  is  getting  more  money  out  of 


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I   ADLER  SELLS  PICTURES  FROM  | 

I         REVIEWS  IN  THE  "NEWS"  | 

I  Manager  Sam  A.  Adler  of  the  Ex-  | 

i  elusive  Feature  Exchange  at  Omaha,  | 

I  says  that  letters  are  an  excellent  ve-  | 

I  hide   for   advertising   from    an   ex-  | 

1  change.  | 

I  "In  selling  'Just  Out  of  College'  I  | 

I  sent  out  425  letters.   I  got  268  replies  | 

I  and  made  167  bookings.    I  referred  | 

I  in  my  letters  to  the  advertisements  in  | 

I  "Motion  Picture  News,"   using    that  | 

I  and  the  reviews  to  back  up  my  claims.  | 

I  "On  a  Billy  Sunday  feature,  which  | 

I  should  go  good  because  of  Sunday's  | 

I  presence  in  Omaha,  I  sent   out   375  | 

I  letters,  got  210  replies  and  made  96  | 

I  bookings.   This  convinces  me  that  let-  1 

I  ters  can  do  a  lot."  | 

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JOE  DI  PISA,  BOSTON,  IMPROVING  IN 
HEALTH 

The  friends  of  Joe  di  Pisa  of  Boston  will 
be  glad  to  know  that  he  is  improving.  For 
sometime  Mr.  di  Pisa,  who  is  well  known 
throughout  this  section  as  a  clever  pub- 
licity man,  representing  the  New  England 
Universal  Film  Exchange  as  well  as  sev- 
eral other  theatres  and  organizations,  has 
not  been  about  his  usual  duties  because  of 
ill  health. 

Some  of  the  boys  dropped  in  to  see  him 
the  other  day  and  found  him  decidedly 
improved. 


MUTUAL'S  NEW  PUBLICITY  SERVICE 
WINS  COMPLIMENTS 

The  new  policy  of  the  Mutual  Film  Cor- 
poration of  furnishing  press  sheets  and 
newspaper  cuts  with  their  regular  program 
service,  is  being  complimented  very  fre- 
quently by  Los  Angeles  and  Southern  Cali- 
fornia exhibitors. 


his  house  than  ever  before.  He  had  a  ten- 
cent  gallery  that  wasn't  doing  much  busi- 
ness. You  know  how  difficult  it  is  to  in- 
duce good  patrons  to  go  upstairs  for  pic- 
tures even  when  the  gallery  is  on  a  dead 
level  with  the  curtain  and  better  for  view- 
ing purposes  than  the  main  floor.  Well. 
Mr.  Marvin  pulled  out  two  rows  of  these 
ten-cent  seats  and  put  in  some  very  pretty 
loges.  These  he  offered  at  a  quarter,  and 
fills  them  every  night. 

"The  new  Kleine-Edison  program  is 
pleasing  exhibitors  mightily  and,  I  think,  is 
better  represented  among  the  Dominion 
playhouses  than  any  other.  We  are  going 
to  open  more  offices  in  Canada  very  shortly, 
which  is  the  best  proof  of  the  increasing 
popularity  of  the  Kleine-Edison  product. 
'The  Woman  Next  Door.'  'The  Money 
Master,'  and  'Vanity  Fair'  are  booking 
solid  and  seem  to  be  giving  the  utmost 
satisfaction  to  theatre-goers. 

"I  am  looking  for  a  sane  and  normal  in- 
crease in  all  lines  of  business.  The  Cana- 
dian giant  was  a  bit  dazed  by  the  first  blow 
of  the  war,  but  he's  on  his  feet  now  and 
coming  back  with  all  his  native  strength 
and  youth." 


PICTURE  BUSINESS    GOOD  DESPITE  WAR,  SAYS 
KLEINE'S  CANADIAN  MANAGER 


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SOUTH  AMERICA  OFFERS  FRUITFUL  FIELD  FOR 
FILMS  OF  REAL  MERIT 


AMERICAN  film  manufacturers  have 
been  trying  to  break  into  the  Colom- 
bian Cinematograph  field  for  some 
months  past.  The  American  consul  at  Bar- 
ranquilla  asked  a  young  person  who  in  the 
United  States  was  a  "moving  picture  fan," 
and  whose  criticisms  he  had  frequently 
heard  on  the  films  presented  in  Colombia, 
what  was  the  matter  with  the  American 
films,  of  which  few  had  been  shown,  and 
none  successfully.    The  reply  was : 

■'If  the  motion  picture  manufacturers  of 
the  United  States  wish  to  get  their  films 
on  the  market  here  they  will  find,  in  my 
opinion,  such  a  thing  utterly  impossible 
until  the  venders  of  the  films  mend  their 
ways.  When  the  people  of  Colombia  order 
pictures  from  the  "States"  the  exporters 
proceed  to  send  them  their  lowest-grade 
films.  Xow,  the  people  here  are  just  as 
critical  as  the  American  public,  and  as  a 
result  the  American  film  is  rarely  bought, 
because  only  low-grade  detective  and  Wild 
West  stories  and  comedies  are  sent.  The 
people  have  no  objection  to  detective  stories 
if  they  are  good.  The  French  and  Italian 
companies  send  none  but  the  best. 

"Wild  West  pictures  are  not  liked,  nor 
does  the  Colombian  care  for  pointless  "slap- 
stick" comedies :  yet  these  are  what  the 
film  exporters  of  the  United  States  are 
sending,  and  then  they  wonder  why  they 
don't  get  Colombia's  trade.  Let  them  try 
a  few  really  good  films;  for  example,  the 
Broadway  features  and  John  Bunny  come- 
dies, plays  like  "My  Official  Wife,"  "Uncle 
Bill,"  etc.,  and  short  society  dramas.  Let 
the  people  here  become  acquainted  with  big 
film  actors  and  actresses  who  sway  the 
North  American  audiences  in  the  grip  of 
their  personality.  Stop  using  Colombia  and 
the  rest  of  South  America  for  a  'waste 
basket'  in  which  to  dump  the  plays  the 
American  public  refuses  to  see.  Then  there 
will  be  a  chance." 

Good  Translations  Essential 

Another  thing  that  the  film  manufac- 
turers should  do,  by  all  odds :  See  that 
all  titles  and  descriptive  matter  are  care- 
fully translated  into  Spanish  by  some  one 
who  understands  both  languages  well,  and 
not  into  pigeon  Spanish  by  some  high 
school  student.  Then,  care  must  be  taken 
in  copying  and  in  printing  titles  on  the 
film.  Nothing  hurts  the  susceptibilities  of 
an  audience  like  being  "stared  at"  by  glar- 
ing errors  of  idiom  and  spelling.  Hence, 
these  are  important  features  in  the  sale 
campaign. 

There  are  three  motion  picture  shows  in 
Barranquilla,  two  in  Santa  Marta,  two  in 
Cartagena,  and  several  in  Bogota  and  Me- 
dellin.    Bucaramanga.  Cali.  Manizales.  and 


other  smaller  centers  all  have  them.  One 
mining  company  has  put  in  a  picture 
theatre  to  keep  its  employees  contented. 
Others  may  have  to  do  the  same.  All  these 
have  depended  on  Pathe  (France),  Gau- 
mont,  and  Italian  Films  Company  for  their 
films. 

American  film  makers  should  begin  to 
look  South  America  over  as  a  field  for  busi- 
ness, but  they  must  remember  that  what 
makes  Pathe  popular  is  understandable 
dramas,  with  some  "blood  and  thunder" 
and  the  titles  in  perfect  Spanish.  Three 
to  five  reels  are  popular  lengths,  so  two 
stories  may  be  given ;  and  then  "La  Napa" 
(the  horse  trader's  "to  boot")  is  usually 


a  short,  clean,  comic  reel  that  sends  every- 
one away  in  a  good  humor,  having  laughed 
at  some  of  the  drolleries  of  Salustiano  or  of 
Max  Linder — funny  and,  above  all,  decent. 
Nothing  that  is  not  clean  in  story  or  action 
will  take,  so  films  for  South  America 
should  be  of  such  a  character  as  to  make 
a  censor  unnecessary,  according  to  the  re- 
port of  a  United  States  Consul  in  Com- 
merce Reports. 

"Les  Miserables,"  "Quo  Vadis,"  "The 
Count  of  Monte  Cristo,"  some  adaptations 
of  Zola's  works,  "The  King  of  the  Air," 
and  other  aeroplane  stories  have  proved 
popular  here.  Nick  Carter  fills  the  niche 
for  detective  tales,  and  such  films  are  suffi- 
ciently funny  to  attract.  It  must  also  be 
remembered  that  the  South  American  is 
more  acquainted  with  French  and  Spanish 
literature  than  with  English  and  American. 


Trade  Board  Advance  in  Film  Reform  Told  Chicago 

Guests  at  Banquet  Hear  from  Binder  Success  Achieved  by  Organization  of  Manufacturers 
in  lis  Aims  to  Secure  for  the  Industry  Progression,  Protection  and  Promotion 


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Special  to  Motion  Picture  News. 

Chicago,  Oct.  25. 
GROUP  of  Chicago  men  prominent 
in  the  film  industry,  attended  an  in- 
formal luncheon  at  the  La  Salle  last  Fri- 
day, to  discuss  local  organization  plans 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Board  of  Trade  of 
America. 

At  each  plate  was  a  pamphlet,  published 
by  the  Board,  giving  a  condensed  resume 
of  the  aims  of  the  Board,  and  listing  its 
officers. 

Also,  each  guest  was  presented  with  a 
reprint  of  pages  45  and  46  of  Motion  Pic- 
ture N^;ws  from  the  issue  of  October  2. 
These  pages  contained  the  announcement 
of  the  formation  of  the  national  body,  and 
an  interview  with  J.  \\  .  Binder,  the  execu- 
tive secretary  of  the  Board. 

Mr.  Binder  had  come  from  New  York 
to  address  the  meeting,  and  his  keen  grasp 
of  conditions  in  the  film  industry  made  a 
deep  impression  on  those  present.  He  first 
outlined  his  own  experience  and  connec- 
tion with  the  business,  and  then  told  the 
historj-  of  the  formation  of  the  Board  of 
Trade. 

He  then  recounted  the  success  already 
achieved  by  the  organization  in  the  film 
field,  and  the  plans  of  the  Board  for  the 
future. 

The  Board  proposes  to  fight  inimical 
legislation,  introduce  favorable  legislation, 
lower  insurance  rates  on  studios,  theatres 
and  exchanges,  establish  a  credit  bureau, 
lower  railroad  rates  on  films,  educate  the 
public  through  publicity  regarding  the  real 
status  of  moving  pictures,  and,  in  general, 
organize  the  business  into  a  unified,  co- 
herent whole. 

Mr.    Binder   announced   that   sixty  per 


cent  of  all  film  manufacturers  in  the  coun- 
try, and  sixty-seven  per  cent  of  all  the  ex- 
changemen  already  are  members,  and  in- 
vited those  present  to  join  the  flock,  enroll- 
ing in  the  one  of  the  six  classes  to  which 
they  belonged. 

W.  R.  Rothacker,  general  manager  of 
the  Industrial  Moving  Picture  Company, 
and  vice-president  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Board  of  Trade,  is  to  receive  the  applica- 
tions of  those  who  were  not  able  to  attend 
the  initial  meeting. 

Those  present  were  the  following :  J.  W 
Binder,  executive  secretary  Motion  Pic- 
ture Board  of  Trade  of  America;  W.  J. 
Sweeney,  Motion  Picture  Exhibitors 
League;  N.  F.  Sawyer  and  H.  J.  Aldous, 
Industrial  Motion  Picture  Company;  Ben 
N.  Judell,  Mutual  Film  Corporation ;  F.  W. 
Redfield,  Fox  Film  Corporation ;  C.  L. 
Worthington,  Fox  Film  Corporation ;  C.  D. 
Paulson,  American  Seating  Company; 
Floyd  M.  Brockwell,  Famous  Players  Film 
Service;  Donald  J.  Bell,  Bell  &  Howell 
Company;  Neil  G.  Caward,  Motographv : 
Mr.  Hildreth,  Billboard:  Paul  C.  Hinz, 
Moving  Picture  World;  Theo.  S.  Meade, 
Motion  Picture  News;  Capt.  F.  A.  Boen- 
ing,  U.  S.  Cinematograph  Company;  John 
B.  Rock,  Vitagraph  Company  of  America ; 
Tom  Quill,  Goes  Lithographing  Company; 
Ben  W.  Beadell.  National  Waterproof 
Company;  Frank  Hough,  George  Kleine, 
Inc. ;  George  Magie,  Universal  Film  Mfg. 
Company;  W.  K.  Cochrane,  Cochrane  Adv. 
Agency;  Watterson  R.  Rothacker,  Indus- 
trial M.  P.  Company;  Mr.  R.  R.  Nehls, 
American  Film  Corporation;  I.  Van 
Ronkle,  V-L-S-E  Company;  Charles  C. 
Pyle,  Bartola  Musical  Company,  and  Mr. 
Gerlach,  J.  C.  Seeburg  Company. 


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Looking  Ahead  With  The  Producers 


VITAGRAPH  TO  PRESENT  NEW  WEEKLY  PROGRAM  OF 
QUALITY,  BEGINNING  NOVEMBER  1 


THE  Vitagraph  company,  on  the  alert 
to  keep  abreast  of  the  demands  of  the 
exhibitors  and  their  growing  patronage, 
have  arranged  a  weekly  program,  begin- 
ning with  the  tirst  week  in  November,  to 
include  a  series  of  releases,  each  one  of 
which  will  be  a  representative  Vitagraph 
picture,  whether  it  be  a  one-part  subject 
or  a  feature.     Twenty-four  of  the  Vita- 


MR.  AND  MH.S.  SIDNEY  DREW  AND  FLORENCE 
NATOL  IN   -BEAUTIFUL  THOUGHTS"  (Vitarraph) 

graph  stars  are  represented  in  the  first 
week's  releases,  who  worked  under  the  di- 
rection of  seven  different  directors  to  make 
the  separate  stories. 

The  first  of  the  quality  releases  will  be 
"Between  Two  Fires.''  in  which  two  maiden 
ladies  living  one  on  each  side  of  a  bachelor, 
conspire  individually  to  capture  him  in  the 
matrimonial  net  and  the  ruse  employed  by 
the  victim  to  circumvent  their  designs.  It 
was  directed  by  Courtland  Van  Deusen, 
with  the  assistance  of  Flora  Finch,  Kate 
Price  and  William  Shea,  in  its  enactment. 

The  second  release  of  the  week  will  be 
"The  Sultan  of  Zulon."  a  two-part  comedy 
by  William  Calvert  Howard,  produced  by 
Wall  Van.  It  tells  in  amusing  manner  the 
adventure  of  Ram  Si  Ko.  in  his  search  of 
a  white  wife  to  add  to  his  already  over- 
stocked harem  Hughie  Mack  is  the  Sul- 
tan, while  Dorothy  Kelly  and  Donald  Mac- 
Bride  assist  him  in  creating  the  fun. 

Following  "The  Sultan  of  Zulon."  will  be 
a  Frederic  Chapin  comedy.  "  \  Family  Pic- 
nic," in  which  a  great  Dane  proves  to  be 
a  white  elephant  on  the  hands  of  a  picnic 
party.  Kate  Price.  Ethel  Corcoran,  Donald 
MacBride  and  Paul  Kelly  are  the  come- 
dians responsible  for  the  comedy's  success. 

A  star  cast  of  Vitagraph  players  selected 
from  the  Western  company  at  Los  .\ngeles. 


Cal.,  enacted  the  release  for  Thursday, 
"The  Ebony  Casket. '  It  is  a  story  in  which 
an  ebony  casket  containing  a  stuffed  cat. 
helps  a  pair  of  lovers  to  overcome  parental 
objection.  William  Duncan,  Anne  Schae- 
fer.  Myrtle  Gonzalez.  Alfred  Vosburgh, 
George  Kunkel.  Otto  Lederer,  Carleton 
Weatherby  and  George  Stanley,  are  the 
principals  concerned  in  the  enactment  of 
this  play. 

Eva  and  Stanley  Dark  are  the  authors  of 
the  regular  "Sidney  Drew  Day"  release, 
"Beautiful  Thoughts,"  in  which  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sidney  Drew  appear  to  exceptional 
advantage.  Its  theme  is  woven  around  the 
tenets  of  the  "Beautiful  Thoughtist"  and 
the  story  develops  into  the  means  employed 
by  a  husband,  a  perpetual  grouch,  to  drive 
the  beautiful  thoughts  out  of  his  wife's 
head.  Florence  Natol  is  the  third  member 
of  the  cast  that  presents  this  delightful 
comedy. 

A  Broadway  star  feature,  "Anselo  Lee." 
a  stirring  picture  of  Gypsy  life,  interwoven 
with  romance,  into  which  a  society  girl  is 
the  beloved  of  a  Gypsj'  Adonis,  is  the  first 
Saturday  release  of  the  month.  It  was 
enacted  by  a  cast  of  Vitagraph  players 
that  include  Antonio  Moreno.  Naomi 
Childers,  Donald  Hall,  Frankie  Mann  and 
Nellie  Anderson,  who  worked  under  the 
direction  of  Harry  Handworth. 

For  good  measure,  and  to  round  out  a 
program  of  exceptional  quality,  the  Vita- 
graph company  announces  the  release  on 
Monday,  November  1,  of  "The  Turn  of  the 
Road."  one  of  their  Blue  Ribbon  features, 
produced  by  Tefft  Johnson  with  a  cast  in- 
cluding Virginia  Pearson.  Joseph  Kilgour. 
Naomi  Childers,  Bobby  Connelly.  Robert 
Gaillard  and  Edwina  Robbins.  It  is  a  life 
drama  from  the  pen  of  Isabel  M.  Johnston, 
and  tells  in  a  series  of  punches  a  story  that 
is  said  to  culminate  in  a  breath-taking 
climax,  and  to  be  replete  with  deft  touches 
of  artistry. 

The  above  series  of  film  releases  for  the 
first  week  in  November  is  only  a  forerun- 
ner of  what  the  Vitagraph  company  prom- 
ise in  the  succeeding  weekly  program  un- 
der the  new  arrangement. 


EDISON  FILMING  LOL  IS  J.  VANCE 
SUBJECT  FOR  DECEMBER  8 

"The  Destroying  Angel."  Louis  Joseph 
Vance's  famous  novel,  is  now  being  filmed 
by  the  Edison  company  for  release  on  the 
Kleine-Edison  Feature  Service  program 
December  8. 

Mabel  Trunnelle.  Marc  ^IcDermott, 
Walter  Craven.  George  Wright.  Fred 
Jones.  John  Sturgeon  and  William  West 
will  handle  the  various  leads. 


TERWILLIGER  TO  BEGIN  NEW  DRAMA 
FOR  LI  BIN 

"Streets  of  Silence"  is  the  title  of  a  new 
and  original  photoplaj-,  written  by  Anthony 
P.  Kelly  of  the  Lubin  Scenario  force,  which 
will  have  its  production  under  Director 
George  Terwilliger  and  which  will  be  re- 
leased through  the  V-L-S-E  Inc.  offices, 
with  Ormi  Hawley  as  the  star. 

This  will  set  at  rest  the  constant  rumor 
that  Director  Terwilliger  is  to  leave  the 
Lubin  Company.  The  picture  will  be  be- 
gun at  once  at  the  Lubin  Philadelphia 
studios  and  then  Director  Terwilliger  with 
his  company  \vill  proceed  to  the  Western 
Lubin  branch  at  Coronado.  Cal.,  where  he 
will  complete  this  picture  and  begin  his 
next. 


AGE  AND  YOUTH  W  ORK  TOGETHER  IN 
METRO  FEATURE 

The  unusual  contrast  of  the  oldest  actress 
on  the  English  speaking  stage  and  the 
youngest  star  of  the  screen  appearing  to- 
gether, will  be  shown  when  Mrs.  Thomas 
W.  Whiffen.  the  "grand  old  lady"  off  the 
stage,  and  little  Mary  Miles  Minter.  the 
youngest  screen  star,  are  seen  in  "Barbara 


MRS.    THOMAS    WHIFFEN    AND    MARY  MILES 
MINTER   IN    "BARBASA  FRIETCHIE 

Frietchie,"  a  five  part  feature  picture  now 
in  production  at  the  Popular  Plays  and 
Players'  studio,  for  an  early  release  on 
the  regular  Metro  program. 

Although  Mrs.  Whiffen  has  appeared  in 
many  notable  stage  productions  on  both 
sides  of  the  Atlantic  for  more  than  half  a 
century,  this  will  mark  her  debut  in  mo- 
tion pictures. 


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A  FAMOUS  ARTISTS'  MODEL  IN  UNUSUAL  POSES  FOR  THE  LATEST  PRODUCTION  FROM  THE  THANHOUSER  STUDIOS 


AUDREY  MUNSON  AS  SHE  APPEARS  IN  •  INSPIRATION,"  COMING  MUTUAL  MASTEEPICTURE 


HAYDON  DIRECTING  ESSANAY  CAST 
IIS  MYSTERY  THEME 

A  company  of  Essanay  players  under 
the  direction  of  J.  Charles  Haydon  is  now 
at  work  making  a  five-act  photoplay  of 
"The  Alster  Case,"  taken  from  the  novel 
of  that  title  by  Rufus  Gillmore,  author  of 
"The  Opal  Pin,"  "The  Mystery  of  the  Sec- 
ond Shot"  and  other  widely  read  detective 
novels. 

The  photoplay  will  be  Essanay's  Decem- 
ber release  on  the  V-L-S-E  program.  It 
is  a  mystery  play,  and  carries  out  the  in- 
cidents of  the  book  with  great  faithfulness 
to  detail,  it  is  said. 

Bryant  Washburn  takes  the  leading  mas- 
culine role,  and  Miss  Ruth  Stonehouse  the 
leading  feminine  part. 

The  mystery  surrounds  the  slaying  of 
Mrs.  Alster,  and  is  solved  in  an  unusual 
and  thrilling  manner  at  the  climax  of  the 
play. 


UNIVERSAL    WILL   PRESENT  SCREEN 
VERSION  OF  "UNDINE" 

The  well  known  novel  entitled  "Undine" 
has  been  adapted  for  the  screen  by  Wal- 
ter Woods  of  the  Universal  scenario  stafif, 
and  same  will  be  produced  in  five  reels  by 
Director  Henry  Otto.  Ida  Schnall,  well 
known  throughout  the  United  States  as  one 
of  the  world's  best  swimmers,  has  been  en- 
gaged to  play  the  star  role  in  this  pro- 
duction. 

Miss  Schnall  has  won  a  number  of  medals 
for  speedy  and  long  distance  swimming, 
and  is  said  to  be  one  of  the  most  perfectly 
formed  women  in  the  world,  her  measure- 
ments checking  with  those  of  the  Venus  of 
Milo. 


"COME  BACK  OF  PERCY,"  THIRD  SELIG 
BLOOM  CENTER  OOMEDY 

"The  Come  Back  of  Percy,"  third  in  the 
Selig  "Chronicles  of  Bloom  Center,"  is  a 
two-act  comedy,  written  and  directed  by 
Marshal  Neilan. 

This  production  will  be  released  in  the 
regular  General  Film  service,  Monday,  No- 
vember 8. 

All  the  characters  which  have  incited 
merriment  will  be  seen  disporting  in  "The 
Come  Back  of  Percy." 

Constable  Plum,  Postmaster  Ira  Pash, 
Miss  Selina  Tubbs.  Druggist  Phil  Pickel, 
Chubby  Green  and  Johnny  West  are  un- 
usually active. 


AUDREY  MUNSON,  FAMOUS  ARTISTS  MODEL,  IN  NOVEL 
PHOTOPLAY  FOR  THANHOUSER 

the  great  ballroom  of  the  Hotel  Astor, 
Conti  modeled  his  group  from  Audrey 
Munson. 

But  her  greatest  triumphs  are  the  groups 
at  America's  greatest  exposition  at  San 
Francisco — "Descending  Night,"  by  Wein- 
man ;  "The  Fountain  of  Eldorado,"  by  Mrs. 
Harry  Payne  Whitney ;  "Genius  of  Crea- 
tion," by  French ;  "Fountain  of  the  Earth," 
by  Aiken ;  Sherry  E.  Fry's  figures  in  Festi- 
val Hall ;  Piccirille's  "Spirit  of  Spring" 
and  "Court  of  Four  Seasons,"  and  Evelyn 
Longman's  "Fountain  of  Ceres."  Of  Ex- 
position paintings,  "Art  Crown  My  Time" 
and  mural  decorations,  by  Milton  Bancroft, 
and  works  by  William  de  Leftwich  Dodge, 
owe  her  their  inspiration. 

Edwin  Thanhouser  now  presents  her  in 
her  first  moving  picture  effort,  entitled  "In- 
spiration," a  five-reel  Thanhouser-Mutual 
Masterpicture. 

In  this  story  of  art  and  artists  she  ap- 
pears as  merely  herself,  for  under  the  guid- 
ance of  her  director,  George  Foster  Piatt, 
the  public  is  given  an  opportunity  to  see 
her  as  the  queen  of  the  sculptor's  dais. 


EDWIN  THANHOUSER  has  engaged 
Audrey  Munson,  who  is  known  in  the 
world  of  the  palette  brush  and  clay  pile 
as  "The  Venus  of  Washington  Square," 
also  as  "The  Panama-Pacific  Girl"  and 
"The  Exposition  Girl."  Miss  Munson  has 
done  some  startling  work  among  painters 
and  sculptors,  and  Edwin  Thanhouser  con- 
siders her  the  logical  subject  for  a  film 
production  which  he  has  long  had  in  mind. 

Audrey  Munson  is  a  miracle  of  human 
development.  Her  form  has  been  the  sub- 
ject of  books  and  articles  by  the  leading 
physiologists  of  America,  but  it  is  as  a 
model  that  her  fame  is  greatest.  As 
"Evangeline,"  by  Daniel  Chester  French, 
she  stands  in  bronze  before  the  home  of 
the  poet  Longfellow,  at  Cambridge.  As 
"History,"  by  Allan  Newman,  she  tops  the 
state  capitol  in  Florida.  In  New  York 
every  mile  or  so  is  marged  with  a  Munson 
figure  by  some  great  sculptor.  She  over- 
looks the  great  metropolis  from  her  pinna- 
cle as  "Justice"  on  the  towering  Municipal 
building.  She  posed  for  the  groups  at 
both  ends  of  the  Manhattan  bridge;  for 


MUSIC  KEEPS  ESSANAY  CAST  UP  TO  REQUIRED  PITCH 
DURING  PRODUCTION  OF  ''THE  RAVEN" 


IN  the  filming  of  "The  Raven,"  a  melange 
of  George  C.  Hazleton's  biographical 
novel  of  the  poet,  and  the  poet's  poem  of 
that  name,  arranged  and  produced  by 
Charles  J.  Brabin,  the  Essanay  company 
resorted  to  music  to  raise  Henry  B. 
Walthall,  Warda  Howard  and  other  mem- 
bers of  the  cast  up  to  the  required  emo- 
tional pitch. 

George  K.  Spoor,  president  of  the  com- 
pany, conceived  the  idea  as  he  stood  on  the 
studio  f^oor  and  watched  Mr.  Brabin  and 
the  others  working  on  the  intense  scenes  of 
the  photoplay.  There  was  difficulty  in 
reaching  and  keeping  the  pitch  required 
because  this  play  gives  an  actor  little  time 
to  get  balance.  After  two  or  three  of  the 
heaviest  scenes  had  been  rehearsed  and  re- 
taken many  times  without  success,  Mr. 
Spoor  left  the  f^oor  and  got  busy  at  the 
telephone. 

That  afternoon  when  the  members  of  the 
cast  returned  from  lunch,  they  found  the 
"sets"  for  the  play  surrounded  by  wooden 


screens.  When  they  were  called  to  the 
floor  and  prepared  to  resume  their  work, 
they  were  startled  by  the  music  of  a  full 
orchestra,  playing  some  of  Grieg's  Peer 
Gynt  music. 

Mr.  Spoor,  after  a  consultation  with  his 
directing  staff,  announced  that  music  would 
be  used  at  the  Esjanay  studio  in  future  pro- 
ductions. This  is  the  first  time  in  film 
history  that  music  has  been  used  in  the 
production  of  photoplays. 


VITAGRAPH  CAST  BEGINS  WORK  ON 
"MRS.  DANE'S  DANGER" 

Lilliam  Walker,  Wilfrid  North,  Donald 
Hall,  William  Dunn  and  Edward  Elkas 
have  begun  work  on  a  three-part  drama 
for  the  Vitagraph  company,  entitled  "Mrs. 
Dane's  Danger,"  by  Charles  L.  Gaskill. 

Besides  playing  the  leading  male  charac- 
ter. Mr.  North  will  also  be  director  of  the 
picture. 


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Vol.  12.    Xo.  18. 


WARREN  KERRIGAN  IN  A  NEW  SERIES  OF  TERRENCE 
O'ROURKE  PICTURES  FOR  UNIVERSAL 

his  side;  he  foils  the  conspirators;  fights 
them  off  in  a  secret  chamber,  and  returns 
to  the  side  of  the  princess,  who  shields  him 
and  later  stabs  the  prince  to  allow  Terrence 
an  opportunity  of  escaping,  in  order  to 
reach  the  English  barracks,  where  he  fur- 
nishes them  with  the  details  of  the  con- 
spiracy which  he  has  nipped  in  the  bud. 


J WARREN  KERRIGAN  is  going  to 
•  appear  in  a  new  series  of  Terrence 
O'Rourke  pictures.  Such  is  the  decision  of 
Carl  Laemle,  president  of  the  Universal 
Film  RIanufacturing  Company,  after  having 
wrestled  for  months  with  one  of  the  most 
intricate  problems  he  has  ever  been  called 
upon  to  solve.  The  "problem"  is  all  caused 
by  the  insistent  demand  of  picture  fans  re- 
questing that  the  Terrence  O'Rourke  pic- 
tures be  re-issued.  But  Mr.  Laemle  has 
decided  that  instead  of  re-issuing  the  fa- 


"TWO  EDGED  SWORD,"  VITAGRAPH, 
NEARS  COMPLETION 

"The  Two  Edged  Sword,"  a  four-part 
drama,  which  was  written  for  the  Vita- 
graph  company  by  Lulu  Case  Russell  and 
Eugene  V.  Brewster,  is  nearing  completion 
under  the  direction  of  George  D.  Baker. 

Edith  Storey,  Evart  Overton,  Josephine 
Earle,  Robert  Gaillard,  Marion  Henry  and 
Nellie  Anderson  are  the  players  prominent 
in  its  enactment. 


J.  WARREN  KERRIGAN  IN  THE  FIRST  OF  THE 
■  TERRENCE  O  ROURKE  "  SERIES 

mous  series,  he  will  present  Mr.  Kerrigan 
in  a  novelty  serial. 

Beginning  November  22,  and  continuing 
for  three  weeks  only,  J.  Warren  Kerrigan 
will  appear  in  a  two-reel  picture  each  week 
of  his  greatest  characterization,  Terrence 
O'Rourke,  which  will  be  released  so  as  to 
follow  immediately  after  the  last  episode  of 
■'The  Broken  Coin.'"  It  had  been  originally 
planned  by  the  Uni\ersal  to  issue  "Graft," 
the  new  Universal  serial  written  by  fifteen 
different  prominent  authors  immediately 
following  "The  Broken  Coin,"  but  the  Ter- 
rence O'Rourke  pictures  will  serve  to  kind 
of  ease  the  strain  on  the  followers  of  the 
popular  Universal  serial,  and  give  them 
something  of  a  different  nature  as  a  matter 
of  diversity. 

The  first  picture  to  be  released  under 
this  plan,  will  be  Louis  Joseph  Vance's 
Egyptian  novelty  story,  "The  Palace  of 
Dust,"  and  will  be  produced  by  Jacques 
Jaccard,  who  also  scenarioized  the  story. 
In  Mr.  Kerrigan's  support  will  be  Carmen 
Phillips,  Ray  Gallagher,  George  Periolat 
and  G.  Raymond  Nye.  The  story  is  laid 
in  Cairo,  Egypt,  where  we  find  Ter- 
rence O'Rourke  as  a  gentleman  of  adven- 
ture. The  Russian  prince,  who  is  the  con- 
sul to  Egypt,  is  perfecting  a  conspiracy 
whereby  the  control  of  Egypt  shall  be 
shifted  from  the  English  into  the  hands 
of  Russia  and  France.  The  prince  of 
Egypt  and  his  brothed,  the  Princess  Con- 
stantine,  are  enthusiastic  for  the  freedom 
of  Egypt,  little  knowing  that  it  is  really  a 
jjlan  to  saddle  their  native  country  with 
new  masters. 

Terrence  O'Rourke  wins  the  princess  to 


UNIVERSAL  FILM  SHOWS  HOW  JOE  KNOWLES,  BY  HIS 
RESOURCE,  KEPT  ALIVE  IN  WILDERNESS 


WHEN  Joe  Knowles,  two  years  ago, 
em.erged  from  the  Maine  woods 
near  the  Canadian  line  and  was  met  at 
Lake  Megantic,  Quebec,  he  proved  to  his 
satisfaction  that  his  experiment  in  the 
Maine  woods  where  he  was  at  the  mercy 
of  the  elements,  the  wild  animals  of  the 
forests,  and  without  food,  clothing  or  shel- 
ter. 

Harvard  professors  who  examined  Joe 
Knowles'  thick  tan  skin  at  the  Cambridge 
Laboratory  the  week  after  he  left  the 
woods  and  forests,  declared  that  no  in- 


for  his  body;  how  he  trapped  fish  and  then 
caught  them  with  his  hands ;  how  he  made 
his  bow  and  arrows  with  which  he  defended 
himself  and  killed  game  are  all  minutely 
portrayed  in  this  Universal  film,  which  Mr. 
Knowles  consented  to  pose  for,  for  the  only 
purpose  of  proving  to  mankind  that  the 
feat  he  accomplished  was  possible.  The  ex- 
periment was  made  for  the  purpose  of 
showing  that  a  man  can  live  today  in  the 
wilderness  and  rely  wholly  on  his  resources 
for  his  living. 

The  pictures  are  instructive,  interesting 
and  amusing. 

The  Universal  will  release  them  under 
the  title  of  "The  Nature  Man"  as  a  Broad- 
way feature. 


ATLAS  MAKES  WAR  COMEDY  FOR 
ASSOCIATED 

The  Atlas  Comedy  Company  of  the  As- 
sociated Service,  inspired  by  many  of 
Henry  Ford's  views  on  war,  have  made  a 
comedy,  "The  Battle  of  Not  Yet." 

For  this  production  a  steel  submarine 
of  the  Ford  type  was  built,  and  it  takes  a 
prominent  part  throughout  the  action. 


NEW   TOM  MIX  COMEDY  COMING  ON 
NOVEMBER  9 

"The  Chef  At  Circle  G"  is  a  Tom  Mix 
comedy  in  one  reel,  released  by  the  Selig 
Company  on  November  9.  The  plot  is  said 
to  be  unusually  funny  and  Tom  Mix  is 
given  opportunity-  for  much  realistic  char- 
acter work. 


HOW  JOE  KNOWLES  BATTLES  A  RATTLER  IN 
■THE   NATURE    MAN  ■ 

dividual  could  attain  such  a  skin  unless  he 

had  actually  been  exposed  to  the  elements 
for  at  least  four  or  five  weeks,  still  there 
were  skeptics  and  it  remained  for  the  Uni- 
versal Film  Manufacturing  Company  to 
attempt  to  a  certain  extent,  to  clear  the 
mystery  by  having  Joe  Knowles  repeat  his 
feat  before  the  camera. 

Mr.  Knowles'  performance  for  the  Uni- 
versal did  not  consist  of  a  lengthy  stay 
in  the  woods,  but  merely  showed  how  he 
accomplished  the  feats  which  he  has  de- 
scribed in  his  book,  "Alone  in  the  Wilder- 
ness." 

How  Joe  Knowles  trapped  and  skinned 
his  bear,  from  which  he  made  a  covering 


JEAN   PIERRE   PIEBABD.   ETOOPEAN  WREST- 
LER. FEATURED  IN  -  ZIBLICKY  S  WATERLOO.  ' 
CASINO    STAR  COMEDY 


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65 


MOUNTAIN  LIFE  PICTURED  IN  "END 
OF  THE  ROAD" 

The  life  of  the  Carolina  mountains  as 
presented  by  H.  Grattan  Donnelly  in  his 
novel,  "The  End  of  the  Road,"  is  graphic- 
ally reproduced  in  the  five-part  Mutual 
Masterpicture  of  the  same  name,  screened 
by  the  American  Company.  The  story 
deals  with  the  passions,  good  and  bad,  both 
of  the  primitive  people  of  the  southern  hills 
and  of  persons  of  intelligence  and  culture 
whose  fortunes  are  cast  among  their  wilder 
compatriots. 

An  all-star  cast  has  been  selected,  in 
which  May  Allison,  Helen  Rosson  and 
Harold  Lockwood  have  the  leads.  William 
Stowell  plays  the  "heavy."  William  Lofe 
and  William  Carroll  appear  in  the  roles  of 
secret  service  men  and  the  frenzied  lover 
of  "Carolina,"  the  mountain  girl. 


CHINA  TOWN  OPIUM  JOINT  ACCURA  TEL  Y  REPRODUCED 

IN  KALEM  PRODUCTION,  "THE  DREAM  SEEKERS" 


CLARA  KIMBALL  YOUNG  IN  CHINESE 
SUBJECT  FOR  W  ORLD  FILM 

Clara  Kimball  Young  will  star  in  a  forth- 
coming World  Film  production  to  be  called 
"The  Spirit  of  the  Joss  House."  Rex  In- 
gram is  directing  the  picture,  the  scenario 
of  which  he  also  prepared. 

In  this  play  she  impersonates  "Ming  Ti," 
who  is  stolen  from  China  and  brought  to 
an  American  Chinatown  by  a  vicious  opium 
dealer.  In  his  disreputable  den  she  meets 
and  falls  in  love  with  Demarest,  an  Ameri- 
can artist. 

World  Film  will  shortly  announce  the 
release  date. 


DALY  ANNOUNCES  CAST  FOR  NEXT 
GOLD  ROOSTER  PLAY 

Arnold  Daly  announces  as  the  cast  for 
his  next  Pathe  Gold  Rooster  Play  "The 
House  of  Fear,"  the  following :  Mr.  Daly  in 
the  lead,  supported  by  Sheldon  Lewis ;  Ina 
Hammer  (who  has  supported  Maude  Ad- 
ams and  Robert  Edeson  ),  Martine  Sabine 
(who  was  leading  man  with  John  Drew), 
William  Bechtel  and  Charles  Laite. 

The  picture  is  under  the  direction  of  Mr. 
Daly  and  Ashley  Miller.  Like  the  others 
of  the  Arnold  Daly  series  it  is  adapted 
from  the  "Ashton-Kirk"  story  written  by 
John  T.  Mclntyre. 


SCENES  FROM  "THE  DKEAM  SEEKERS"  AND  "THE  GLORY  OF  YOUTH"  (Kalem) 


A COMPLETE  opium  outfit,  exactly  as 
used  during  the  days  of  San  Fran- 
cisco's world  famous  Chinatown,  has  been 
employed  in  the  production  of  "The  Dream 
Seekers"  by  the  Kalem  Company.  It  was 
only  through  the  friendship  that  an  official 
of  the  Golden  Gate  City  has  for  James  W. 
Horne,  who  directed  the  picture,  that  it 
was  obtained. 

For  several  years  now  the  federal  and 
State  governments  of  California  have  had 
the  Chinese  quarter  under  control,  and 
practically  have  stamped  out  all  of  the  vice 
that  made  its  ill-repute. 

When  Mr.  Horne  was  confronted  with 
the  problem  of  obtaining  the  proper  at- 
mosphere for  "The  Dream  Seekers"  he 
went  at  once  to  the  official  of  San  Fran- 
cisco and  secured  his  assistance.  Then  ap- 
plication was  made  to  the  United  States 


government  for  permission  to  remove  a 
complete  outfit  that  had  been  confiscated 
from  the  warehouses  where  it  had  been 
stored. 

This  permission  finally  was  secured,  and 
then  Mr.  Horne  set  about  the  task  of  get- 
ting a  Chinese  to  aid  in  arranging  the  set. 
Here,  however,  was  a  stumbling  block. 
Nowhere  could  he  find  a  Celestial  who 
would  admit  having  any  knowledge  of  how 
an  opium  joint  appeared  when  in  full  oper- 
ation. For  three  days  he  searched  with- 
out avail,  and  it  was  not  until  a  Chinese 
interpreter  employed  in  one  of  the  munici- 
pal courts  volunteered  that  he  was  able  to 
get  the  effects  desired.  However,  the 
scene  as  shown  in  the  Kalem  picture,  which 
will  be  generally  released  in  a  short  time, 
is  an  accurate  reproduction  of  an  opium 
joint. 


WHEN  Tyrone  Power  and  Kathlyn 
Williams  are  seen  in  the  new  Selig 
production,  "Sweet  Alyssum,"  released 
through  the  \'-L-S-E  November  15,  it  will 
be  the  first  time  that  these  two  strong 
"leads"  have  appeared  together  in  moving 


ONE  OF  THE  UNUSUALLY  DEEP  SETS  USED  IN  "AT  BAY."  A  PATHE  GOLD  ROOSTER  PLAY 


TYRONE  POWER  AND  KATHLYN  WILLIAMS  CO-STARS 
IN  "SWEET  ALYSSUM"  FOR  SELIG 

pictures.  The  two  have  much  in  common 
in  their  ability  to  interpret  the  emotional 
although  graduated  from  widely  varied 
schools  of  dramatic  interpretation  and 
with  widely  varied  careers. 

Mr.  Power  has  an  enviable  reputation  on 
the  legitimate  stage,  having  appeared,  in  ad- 
dition to  Sir  Henry  Irving,  with  Mrs. 
Fiske,  Juha  Marlowe,  Mrs.  Leslie  Carter 
and  William  Faversham  and  having  been 
featured  in  that  startling  play,  "The  Ser- 
vant in  the  House,"  by  Charles  Rann  Ken- 
nedy for  several  seasons. 

He  began  his  stage  career  in  1884  and 
has  never  missed  a  season  since. 

Mis.>  Williams  on  the  other  hand,  is  a 
product  solely  of  the  silent  drama.  Start- 
ing about  six  years  ago  as  a  player  under 
the  Selig  trademark,  she  has  played  leads 
week  in  and  week  out.  Her  greatest  de- 
li.ght  IS  playing  character  parts  in  which 
emotions  known  to  all  women  can  be  por- 
trayed. Her  work  with  the  wild  animals 
at  the  Selig  Jungle-Zoo  in  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.,  is  well  known  through  her  per- 
formance in  the  "Adventures  of  Kathlyn" 
serial  and  countless  other  wild  animal 
pictures. 

Her  most  famous  successes  were  in  the 
big  V-L-S-E  productions,  "The  Carpet 
from  Bagdad,"  and  "The  Rosary,"  in  each 
of  which  she  scored  decisively. 


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Vol.  12.   No.  18. 


New  Laws  And  Court  Decisions 


This  department  is  designed  to  keep  the  industry  informed  of  all  news  concerning  new  or  projected  laws.  Federal, 
State,  County  or  Municipal,  that  may  affect  the  business,  and  all  events  involving  any  branch 
of  the  trade  with  the  authorities  in  all  sections  of  the  country 


PROMINENT  CAPITAL  CITY  PICTURE  MEN  WELCOME 
BANNING  OF  "COUNTRY  STORE' 

THE  "The  Country  Store"  has  been  dealt 
its  Waterloo  in  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia by  the  decision  of  the  Assistant  District 
Attorney,  Ralph  Given,  that  such  a  practice 
is  a  violation  of  the  lottery  law.  This  re- 
fers to  the  giving  away  of  prizes  of  any 
character  in  places  of  amusement. 

The  order  as  issued  by  Major  Pullman, 
Chief  or  Police,  runs  as  follows :  "Notify 
all  theatres,  motion  picture  parks  and  other 
place  in  your  precinct  running  so-called 
"Country  Stores"  or  any  device  or  plan 
where  prizes  of  any  kind  are  given  by 
virtue  of  the  purchase  of  tickets,  that  if 
anything  along  this  line  is  done  tonight,  the 
police  will  take  action. 

"The  captains  will  see  that  no  country 
store  enterprises  of  this  sort  are  allowed 
to  operate  after  this  warning,  which  should 
be  given  this  afternoon." 

This  order  took  effect  at  once,  on  Oc- 
tober 19. 

J.  P.  Morgan,  vice-president  of  the  Mo- 
tion Picture  Exhibitors'  League  for  the 
District  of  Columbia,  had  this  to  say  on 
the  ruling :  "The  League  has  always  op- 
posed the  country  store  and  welcomes  the 
action  of  the  Chief  of  Police.  At  one  time 
we  voted  to  refuse  membership  to  ex- 
hibitors resorting  to  this  practice.  We  do 
not  consider  it  legitimate  picture  business 


and  is  only  used  by  those  who  are  tottering 
to  failure  because  of  mismanagement  or 
because  they  are  not  showing  the  right 
kind  of  pictures.  Personally,  I  rank  as  the 
first  exhibitor  in  the  northeast  section  of 
the  city,  and  I  have  always  been  able  to 
make  my  pictures  bring  my  patrons.  I 
have  country  stores  all  around  and  I  have 
seen  them  rise  and  fall,  but  the  Princess 
kept  strictly  to  its  mission  of  motion  pic- 
tures." 

Arthur  Robb,  house  manager  for  Moore's 
Garden  and  Strand  said :  "Of  course  the 
decision  of  the  police  department  did  not 
effect  us  at  all. 

"We  have  never  found  the  giving  of 
prizes  of  any  character  necessary,  nor  has 
the  country  store  practices  of  other  houses 
affected  our  patronage." 

Nat  Glasser,  manager  of  The  Leader,  and 
a  director  of  the  Washington  Exhibitors' 
League,  emphatically  favored  the  order  of 
Major  Pullman :  "If  the  pictures  are  not 
appealing  enough  to  bring  the  public,  then 
don't  try  to  run  a  picture  show.  Another 
thing,  this  idea  of  giving  something  for 
nothing  creates  dissatisfaction  among  the 
patrons.  They  are  never  satisfied.  More 
than  this,  prize  offering  cheapens  a  house 
and  is  beneath  the  dignity  due  high  class 
motion  pictures." 


KEYSTONE  GOVERNOR  ASKS  STATE  EMPLOYEES  TO 
ACT  AS  SPIES  TOWARD  EXHIBITORS 

EVERY  employee  of  every  department 
of  the  state  government  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, whether  located  at  the  capitol  in 
Harrisburg  or  anywhere  throughout  the 
state,  is,  in  effect,  designated  by  Governor 
Martin  G.  Brumbaugh  to  act  as  a  "gum- 
shoe" detective  to  see  that  exhibitors  live 
up  to  the  letter  of  the  recently  enacted 
motion  picture  censorship  law. 

This  became  known  when  the  governor 
sent  an  identical  letter  to  the  heads  of 
all  the  departments  calling  on  them  to 
direct  their  subordinates  who  at  any  time 
may  attend  a  motion  picture  show,  to  re- 
port to  the  state  board  of  censors  when- 
ever they  see  a  film  displayed  which  has 
not  been  approved  by  the  censors. 

It  will  be  recalled  that  Governor  Brum- 
baugh last  spring  took  an  active  interest 
in  the  passage  of  the  present  censorship 
law,  which  was  drawn  up  by  Chief  Censor 
J.  Louis  Ereitinger.  whose  attitude  has  al- 
ways been  hostile  to  the  motion  picture  ex- 
hibitors. 


Here  is  the  text  of  the  letter  Governor 
Brumbaugh  has  addressed  to  all  the  heads 
of  departments : 

"It  has  come  to  my  attention  that  here 
and  there  throughout  the  state  moving 
picture  films  have  been  displayed  that  have 
not  been  approved  by  the  Pennsylvania 
State  Board  of  Censors  for  Moving  Pic- 
ture Films. 

"It  is  of  the  utmost  importance  that  only 
films  approved  by  the  board  of  censors  of 
this  commonwealth  should  be  exhibited  in 
this  state. 

"Will  you,  therefore,  be  kind  enough  in 
the  interest  of  a  proper  enforcement  of 
this  law,  to  request  of  all  employees  of 
your  department,  who  at  any  time  in  at- 
tendance at  a  public  moving  exhibition 
should  see  displayed  any  film  not  approved 
by  the  Pennsylvania  Board  of  Censors,  im- 
mediately to  notify  the  board  of  the  time, 
the  place  and  the  character  of  such  film. 

"This  co-operation  on  the  part  of  your 
people  will  be  greatly  appreciated." 


"DAMAGED    GOODS"    O.    K.'D  AT 
SHOWING  /A  A£r  ORLEANS 

New  Orleans  is  not  "blessed"  with  a 
board  of  censors,  but  the  Mutual  Film  Cor- 
poration, in  introducing  "Damaged  Goods" 
to  that  city,  held  a  private  showing  of  that 
picture  at  the  Hippodrome  theatre,  and  in- 
vited scores  of  city  officials  and  leading 
physicians  to  express  their  opinions  of  the 
picture.  "Damaged  Goods"  was  shown  Oc- 
tober 24  at  the  Columbia  theatre,  in  Canal 
street. 

Several  score  of  written  opinions  were 
garnered,  and  every  one  of  them  had  noth- 
ing but  praise  for  the  picture.  Dr.  Oscar 
Dowling.  president  of  the  Louisiana  State 
Board  of  Health,  said :  "The  picture  is 
'strong.'  if  you  will,  but  in  my  opinion  it 
holds  a  tremendous  power  for  good."  Dr. 
Dowling  for  a  number  of  years  has  con- 
ducted a  fight  for  sanitation.  His  expres- 
sions have  been  sought  by  the  leading  jour- 
nals of  the  countr}',  including  the  Saturday 
Evening  Post. 

The  Rev.  Louis  Voss.  pastor  of  the  First 
Street  Presbyterian  Church,  said :  "Dam- 
aged Goods"  ought  to  strengthen  greatly 
the  effort  that  is  being  made  to  stamp  out 
that  blot  upon  our  cit>-  and  principal  cause 
of  loathsome  diseases  so  widely  prevalent 
—I  refer  to  the  restricted  district — by  the 
enactment  of  an  injunction,  or  abatement 
act." 

The  picture  is  being  shown  at  the  Co- 
lumbia theatre  by  H.  E.  Smith,  an  exhibi- 
tor from  Dallas.  Tex.,  at  25  cents. 


QUEBEC  BANS  "ETERNAL  CITY"  ON 
RELIGIOUS  GROUNDS 

The  motion  picture  play  adapted  from 
Hall  Caine's  "Eternal  City"  has  been 
banned  from  reproduction  in  the  picture 
houses  of  the  Province  of  Quebec,  accord- 
ing to  an  announcement  made  by  Sheriff 
Lemieux.  chairman  of  the  Provincial  Board 
of  Moving  Picture  Censors.  The  picture 
was  refused  approbation  on  religious 
grounds.  The  population  of  this  province 
is  made  up  mainly  of  devout  French- 
Canadians. 


ST.  LOUIS  EXHIBITORS  WILL  FIGHT 
CENSORSHIP 

The  St.  Louis  Exhibitors'  League  will  ap- 
pear at  an  open  hearing  of  a  committee  of 
the  Aldermanic  Board  in  opposition  to  a 
bill  to  create  a  board  of  censorship  for  mo- 
tion pictures  in  St.  Louis,  which  was  re- 
cently presented  by  Alderman  Barney  L. 
Schwartz. 


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WINNIPEG  CENSORS  ENLIST  LADIES'  COMMITTEE  TO 
BAR  'NAUGHTY  "  FILMS  FROM  PUBLIC  GAZE 


CARRIE  SIMPSON  NOW  FULL  FLEDGED 
STATE  CENSOR 

Miss  Carrie  Simpson  is  now  a  full-fledged 
censor  of  the  State  of  Kansas,  having  been 
appointed  by  Governor  Capper.  This  makes 
her  responsible  only  to  Governor  Capper 
and  not  to  W.  D.  Ross,  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction. 

According  to  those  who  are  "in  the 
know,"  Miss  Simpson  is  having  tail-pieces 
made  that  will  show  that  the  film  bearing 
it  has  been  passed  by  her  and  not  by  W. 
D.  Ross.  It  seems  that  Miss  Simpson  was 
appointed  by  the  governor  at  the  sugges- 
tion of  Mr.  Ross.  Miss  Simpson  wants  to 
be  responsible  for  her  opinions  and  for  this 
reason  is  going  to  use  her  own  name  on 
films  that  she  passes. 

Miss  Simpson's  new  appointment  will  give 
her  full  power  to  pass  or  reject  a  film  re- 
gardless of  the  opinions  of  the  other  cen- 
sors. 

It  is  not  known  to  be  true,  but  it  is  sus- 
pected, that  this  new  appointment  of  Miss 
Simpson's  is  not  setting  very  well  with  the 
other  censors. 


WOULD  KEEP  CHILDREN,  UNDER  14 
AND  ALONE,  FROM  NIGHT  SHOWS 
The  Detroit  Federation  of  Women's 
Clubs  will  endeavor  to  see  that  the  or- 
dinance which  prohibits  the  attending  of 
moving  picture  theatres  at  night  by  chil- 
dren under  14  years  of  age  not  accompanied 
by  adults,  is  enforced. 

''We  will  make  the  mothers  of  Detroit 
realize  that  children  under  14  should  at- 
tend only  Saturday  afternoon  matinees  and 
that  the  program  of  these  matinees  should 
be  chosen  especially  for  them,"  said  Mrs. 
W.  R.  Alvord,  president  of  the  federation. 
"The  managers  of  theatres  are  willing  to 
put  on  such  programs,  provided  that  there 
is  a  demand  for  them.  It  is  our  purpose  to 
create  the  demand.  We  are  also  appealing 
to  the  managers  to  enforce  the  ordinance 
now  in  existence,  which  prohibits  children 
from  attending  evening  performances  un- 
less accompanied  by  an  adult. 

"We  shall  make  a  campaign  through  the 
clubs  and  churches  of  the  city  to  show 
mothers  the  results  of  evening  theatre- 
going  by  children  and  of  seeing  pictures 
intended  only  for  older  eyes." 


HOUSTON    EXHIBITOR,  ARRESTED, 
REFUSES  TO  STOP  PICTURE 

Because  he  showed  a  film,  "The  House 
with  Nobody  In  It,"  without  a  permit  from 
the  Board  of  Censors,  Anthony  Xydias,  an 
exhibitor  of  Houston,  Tex.,  was  arrested. 
After  his  arrest,  he  refused  to  take  the  pic- 
ture of¥,  and  showed  it  at  his  house 
throughout  the  day.  Said  Mr.  Xydias,  ac- 
cording to  the  Houston  Chronicle: 

"I  am  going  to  make  a  test  case  of  this 
and  carry  it  through  the  highest  courts  if 
necessary.  I  am  going  to  find  out  if  I  can 
be  forced  to  show  pictures  to  the  censor 
that  are  admittedly  proper  and  clean  and 
be  compelled  to  ask  for  a  permit  before 
showing  every  film.  No  word  of  con- 
demnation has  been  uttered  against  this 
picture.  The  only  point  up  for  argument 
is  that  I  failed  to  get  a  permit  from  the 
censor  before  showing  it.'" 


MANITOBA  and  Saskatchewan  moving 
picture  censorship,  which  is  all  done 
by  a  board  of  three  censors  in  Winnipeg, 
will  in  the  future,  it  is  probable,  be  more 
strict  than  ever.  Strips  of  film  with  even  a 
faint  breath  of  naughtiness  mixed  up  in 
them,  will  be  promptly  ordered  deleted  and 
it  is  possible  that  even  anything  in  the  way 
of  a  domestic  scandal,  as  forming  an  epi- 
sode in  a  reel,  will  be  chopped  out  in  its  en- 
tirety. 

No  more  will  the  monthly  censors'  re- 
ports, which  are  submitted  to  the  board  of 
control  at  the  city  hall,  contain  as  reasons 
for  films  censored,  be  confined  to  "German 
scenes,  fights,  shooting,  gambling,  immoral, 
suicide,"  etc.  It  is  possible  that  additional 
reasons,  objected  to  by  the  more  discerning 
feminine,  and  reasons  entirely  original 
with  the  Winnipeg  board  of  censors,  will  be 
included.  Coryphees  in  abbreviated  skirts, 
bathing  nymphs  in  scanty  costumes,  and 
even  the  occasional  flash  of  a  silk  stocking, 
seen  as  the  lady  leaves  her  auto  or  jumps 
out  of  the  window  of  a  moving  train,  will 
probably  be  witnessed  no  more  on  the 
screens  in  two  of  the  western  Canada 
prairie  provinces,  after  the  ladies  have  got- 
ten fairly  into  the  harness. 

The  Winnipeg  Moving  Picture  board  of 


THREE  days  before  the  scheduled  date 
for  the  showing  of  the  Johnson-Wil- 
lard  fight  pictures  in  Massey  Music  Hall, 
the  largest  auditorium  in  Toronto,  the 
Ontario  government  decided  to  cancel  the 
permit  which  had  been  issued  for  their  ex- 
hibition, owing  to  pressure  from  minis- 
terial associations  and  other  representa- 
tives of  the  clergy.  The  result  has  been 
that  the  Sportsmen's  Patriotic  Association, 
under  whose  auspices  the  views  were  to 
have  been  screened,  has  disbanded,  and  the 
Canadian  soldiers,  for  whose  benefit  the 
exhibition  was  planned,  are  signing  a  pro- 
test against  the  government's  action  in  re- 
voking the  permit  which  had  been  officially 
granted. 

The  fight  views  were  to  have  been  shown 
all  in  one  day,  October  20,  and  the  can- 
cellation of  the  permit  was  made  on  Oc- 
tober 17.    The  incident  has  been  made  a 


THE  legality  of  "picketing"  theatres 
which  have  had  trouble  with  labor 
unions  is  to  be  settled  in  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  State  of  Washington,  through  the 
medium  of  an  action  started  in  Spokane 
County. 

The  last  State  legislature  passed  a  law 
prohibiting  picketing.  A  few  days  ago  E. 
M.  Reed  and  Joseph  Thompson,  members 
of  the  Motion  Picture  Operators'  Union, 
were  arrested  while  marching  up  and  down 
in  front  of  the  Empress  theatre,  carrying 
banners  which  read :  "This  theatre  is  un- 
fair."   The  arrests  were  made  on  warrants 


censors  have  brought  something  down  upon 
themselves,  but  still  it  may  be  all  right  at 
that,  and  what  the  board  will  like,  when  it 
is  considered  that  they  will  be  visited  regu- 
larly by  a  bevy  of  ladies  whose  ambition  is 
to  see  that  the  public  gets  what  it  wants, 
so  long  as  it  is  also  what  the  ladies  want  to 
give  them  in  the  way  of  pictures. 

Those  pictures  which  the  censors  already 
have  allowed  to  be  displayed  to  the  enthu- 
siastic youth  or  the  serious-minded  adult 
will  be  relegated  to  oblivion,  if  the  ladies 
decide  against  them. 

The  censors  say  they  agree  that  they 
ought  to  help  the  moving  picture  manage- 
ments in  giving  the  public  what  it  wants, 
and  so  have  decided  that  a  committee  of 
ladies  is  sure  to  know  all  the  wants  of  the 
public,  for  have  they  not  husbands  and 
other  servants  to  obtain  their  information 
from?  Certainly  for  the  sake  of  the  hus- 
bands and  servants  the  standard  of  pictures 
for  Manitoba  and  Saskatchewan  will  be 
raised  a  little  higher. 

The  personnel  of  the  committee  selected 
includes  the  names  of  some  of  Winnipeg's 
most  prominent  women,  the  wife  of  At- 
torney General  Hudson  being  one  of  the 
number.  There  is  the  wife  of  a  prominent 
Winipeg  minister  also  on  the  board. 


public  issue  between  the  officials  and  mem- 
bers of  the  defunct  Sportsmen's  organiza- 
tion, and  the  preachers  and  the  dailies  have 
been  devoting  columns  of  space  to  the  con- 
troversy. 

"I  was  one  of  the  favored  few  who  saw 
the  Willard-Johnson  pictures  at  a  private 
view,"  Robert  C.  Newman,  provincial  in- 
spector of  theatres,  told  the  News  corre- 
spondent. "I  saw  nothing  immoral  about 
them.  They  did  not  show  anything  brutal. 
There  was  no  bloodshed.  It  was  a  good, 
clean  exhibition  of  boxing,  according  to 
these  views." 

Arrangements  are  being  made  by  a  num- 
ber of  citizens  of  Toronto  to  hold  a  public 
mass  meeting  in  Massey  Music  Hall,  which 
seats  4,800  people,  to  protest  against  the 
intereference  of  the  ministers  in  this  as 
well  as  in  one  or  two  other  patriotic 
ventures. 


sworn  to  Joseph  Krom,  manager  of  the 
theatre. 

The  men  were  placed  under  bond  and 
released.  According  to  Attorney  E.  W. 
Robertson,  who  appeared  for  them  at  their 
preliminary  hearing,  the  anti-picketing  law 
is  inoperative,  because  a  petition  has  been 
filed  demanding  that  a  referendum  vote  be 
allowed  upon  it. 

Deputy  Prosecutor  Hance  H.  Cleland 
told  the  court  the  statute  was  operative, 
because  the  referendum  law  excepts  stat- 
utes which  relate  to  the  public  peace  and 
safet^^ 


TORONTO  CLERGY  BLOCKS  SHOWING  OF  FIGHT  FILMS, 
DESPITE  PROMOTERS'  PATRIOTIC  PURPOSE 


LEGALITY  OF  ''PICKETING  '   THEATRES   WILL  BE 
SETTLED  BY  WASHINGTON  SUPREME  COURT 


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In  and  Out  of  West  Coast  Studios 


liinnniFi 


By  J.  C.  Jessen 

Sfiecia!  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Los  Angeles,  Oct.  23. 

THE  Kalem  Ham  Comedy  company 
has  just  completed  filming  "The 
Man  Eating  Tiger"  in  the  wilds 
of  Bear  Valley  near  Pine  Crest,  Cal.  The 
scenario  for  this  is  by  Lloyd  V.  Hamil- 
ton, and  the  direction  was  in  charge  of 
William  Beaudine.  The  part  of  Minnie 
was  played  by  Owen  Evans.  She  was 
originally  intended  to  be  a  lion,  but  Los 
Angeles  costumers  had  only  a  tiger  make- 
up, hence  the  change.  The  principal 
parts  in  this  were  taken  by  little  Bud 
Duncan  and  Ethel  Teare.  The  company 
is  now  making  "Nearly  a  King,"  a  com- 
edy of  the  Elizabethan  period,  from 
scenario  by  Director  Beaudine. 

Jack  McDearmid,  who  has  played  two 
short  engagements  with  Coast  companies, 
has  been  added  to  the  regular  stock  of 
the  Kalem  Ham  Comedy  company,  and 
will  play  juvenile  leads  opposite  Ethel 
Teare  in  future  productions.  Mr.  Mc- 
Dearmid was  with  Ziegfeld  productions 
for  the  past  three  years,  and  played  juve- 
nile lead  in  "The  Winsome  Widow"  and 
••The  Follies  of  1912." 

The  work  of  filming  the  "Stingaree" 
series  by  tlie  Kalem  company  is  proceed- 
ing very  satisfactorily,  the  organization 
now  making  the  fourth  episode.  Many 
scenes  for  this  number  were  made  dur- 
ing the  past  week  on  the  Mojave  Desert 
where  the  entire  company,  with  a  large 
number  of  extras,  cowboys  and  complete 
camp  outfit  spent  the  past  week.  This 
production  is  in  charge  of  James  Horne. 

Paul  Gilmore,  who  has  just  completed 
an  engagement  at  tlie  Griffith  Fine  Art 
Films  studio,  where  he  played  a  leading 
part  in  "The  Penitentes,"  has  been  en- 
gaged by  President  Fred  J.  Balshofer,  of 
the  Quality  Pictures  Corporation,  to  plaj' 
featured  leads  opposite  Marguerite  Snow. 
He  began  this  engagement  this  week  ap- 
pearing in  the  part  of  William  Westwood 
in  "Rosemary."  Mr.  Gilmore  has  had 
a  ^'ery  successful  theatrical  career,  hav- 
ing played  practically  all  of  the  John 
Drew  parts  in  cities  outside  of  Chicago 
and  New  York.  He  also  has  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  first  actor  engaged 
by  the  Mutoscope  and  Biograph  com- 
pany when  it  was  only  possible  to  make 
a  picture  sixty  feet  in  length.  Since  en- 
tering the  picture  field  he  played  leads 
in  two  subjects  for  tlie  Balboa  company 
besides  the  engagement  in  ''The  Peni- 
tentes." 

New  Comedienne  for  Nestor 

Director  Al  Christie  of  the  Nestor  com- 
edies has  discovered  another  comedienne 
in  the  person  of  Betty  Compson.  who 
came   to   Los  .Angeles   appearing  in  a 


vaudeville  sketch  played  over  Fantages 
circuit.  While  here  Mr.  Christie  saw  the 
act,  and  arranged  for  Miss  Compson  to 
return  to  Universal  City  as  soon  as  her 
engagement  was  completed.  She  arrived 
at  the  film  city  this  week,  and  in  honor 
of  her  coming  the  Nestor  company  be- 
gan filming  a  very  appropriate  subject, 
"Wanted,  a  Leading  Woman,"  which  is 
a  motion  picture  of  a  motion  picture, 
showing  the  trials  of  a  director  in  secur- 
ing talent  for  the  making  of  a  college 
corned}'.  The  arrival  of  the  new  come- 
dienne, according  to  the  script,  causes 
jealousy  between  Eddie  and  Lee,  and 
they  make  numerous  attempts  to  outdo 
each  other  and  win  the  hand  of  the  fair 
one,  Eddie  having  the  edge  because  he 


CELIA  SANTON  (Horsley) 

plays  the  juvenile  lead,  while  poor  Lee 
is  forced  to  make  up  as  the  janitor. 
The  entire  company  have  a  delightful 
time. 

Delegates  and  guests  of  the  American 
Electric  Railway  Association,  and  the 
.American  Electric  Railway  Manufactur- 
ers Association  were  entertained  one 
dav  during  the  past  week  at  Universal 
City. 

Going  to  the  capitol  of  filmdom  by 
electric  cars,  they  were  met  at  Universal 
City  station  by  an  escort  of  cowboys, 
and  the  officers  were  transported  to  the 
entrance  of  the  city  in  the  original  city 
conveyance,  the  horse-car.  The  progress 
of  the  times  were  shown  during  their 
return  to  the  station  when  they  were 
taken  in  a  1915  jitney  of  the  "flivver" 
variety.  During  the  day  a  number  of 
special  scenes  were  made  following  a 
short  address  of  welcome  bv  Director 


General  McRae.  George  E.  Kann,  who 
arrived  Monday  to  take  up  the  duties  of 
business  manager,  supervised  the  enter- 
tainment, and  the  principal  events  of  the 
afternoon  was  a  big  rodeo  in  which  Jane 
Bernoudy  won  many  of  the  honors. 

Universal  Director  Makes  New  Record 

Beverly  Griffith,  in  charge  of  making 
local  scenes  for  the  Universal  Animated 
Weekly  in  connection  with  his  work  in 
charge  of  locations,  made  new  records 
this  week  when,  under  his  direction,  pic- 
tures were  taken  of  the  burning  of  fifty 
thousand  dollars'  worth  of  opium  pipes 
and  paraphernalia  by  the  State  Board  of 
Pharmacy.  The  picture  closed  with  a 
"  close-up"  of  a  poor  Chinese  crying  over 
the  spilled  milk.  The  last  scenes  were 
made  at  3:45  p.  m.  It  required  an  hour 
to  take  the  exposed  negative  to  the  Uni- 
versal laboratory  and  a  print  back  to  the 
Superba  theatre,  where  it  was  shown  at 
7:15.  The  laboratory  department  needed 
l)ut  two  hours  and  a  half  for  developing 
and  printing  from  the  negative. 

The  Horace  Davey  Joker  Company 
has  just  filmed  "When  Father  Was  a 
Goat"  from  a  scenario  by  Charles  H. 
Christie,  wherein  flirty  father  is  forced 
to  give  son  five  hundred  dollars  in  order 
that  the  boy  maj-  square  the  old  man 
with  the  supposed  detectives.  Ray  Gal- 
lagher is  the  son,  Billie  Rhodes  the  girl. 
Harry  Rattenberry  the  father,  and  Xeil 
Burns  the  detective.  The  company  is 
now  filming  "Saved  by  a  Shirt." 

■  Chills  and  Chickens"  is  a  one-reel 
comedy  wherein  C.  Chaser  has  domestic 
troubles,  after  forcing  himself  to  become 
ill  that  he  may  be  taken  to  a  hospital 
where  he  sees  a  decidedlj-  attractive 
nurse.  Max  Asher  is  Chaser.  Gale  Henry 
his  wife,  and  Lillian  Peacock  the  nurse. 
Allen  Curtis  is  directing  this  storj', 
scenario  of  which  is  by  Gale  Henry. 

The  George  Ade  play.  "Father  and  the 
Boys,"  is  being  filmed  this  week  with  a 
cast  composed  of  Digby  Bell  as  the 
father,  Lemuel  Morewood.  Harry  Ham 
and  Bud  Chase  as  his  sons.  Louise  Car- 
basse  as  Bessie  Breighton,  May  Gaston 
as  Frances  Berkley,  and  Yona  Land- 
owska  as  Emilj-  Donaldson.  The  plot 
revolves  about  a  western  orphan  who 
owns  an  interest  in  a  supposed  worthless 
mine,  and  goes  to  New  York  to  earn  a 
livelihood  hy  society  entertaining.  A 
rich  New  Yorker  aids  the  girl  in  with- 
holding her  rights  to  the  mine.  His  in- 
terest in  the  girl  causes  his  sons,  whose 
marriages  he  had  planned  to  think  he  is 
eloping  with  her  and  a  continental  chase 
follows.  The  sons  fall  in  love  with  the 
girl  their  father  intended  should  marry 
the  other,  and  the  Western  maid  finds 
her  former  sweetheart  who  has  returned 
from  the  Klondike. 


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Constance  Johnson  is  being  featured 
in  the  name  part  of  the  three-reel  subject 
by  F.  McGrew  Willis  entitled,  "The  But- 
terfly," which  shows  the  career  of  a  friv- 
olous woman  who  loves  attention.  This 
borders  on  tragedy  and  has  a  decidedly 
strong  plot.  M.  Blevins  appears  as  the 
heavy,  Jack  Livingston  as  the  lead  oppo- 
site Miss  Johnson,  and  Ray  Hanford  m 
the  character  role. 

"An  Unexpected  Scoop"  is  a  one-reel 
comedy  drama  made  this  week  by  Rich- 
ard Stanton,  in  which  Stanton,  Jack  Wil- 
son and  Myrtle  Gonzalez  play  the  prin- 
cipal parts.  It  is  a  newspaper  story  in 
which  two  reporters  from  rival  papers 
become  rivals  over  a  girl  who,  it  later 
develops,  is  the  only  party  who  can  give 
them  information  regarding  a  story  they 
have  both  been  given  assignments  for. 

Director  William  C.  Dowlan  is  filming 
a  one-reel  comedy  drama,  "The  Travel- 
ing Man  and  the  Girl,"  from  story  by 
Leonora  Ainsworth.  Mr.  Dowlan  and 
Gloria  Fonda  play  the  name  parts,  with 
V.  T.  Henderson  appearing  in  the  char- 
acter role.  The  plot  pertains  to  the  step- 
father accusing  his  step-son  of  robbery, 
and  the  traveling  man  bringing  about  the 
placing  of  guilt  on  the  son  of  the  man. 

Director  J.  P.  McGowan  has  complet- 
ed the  making  of  "When  Rogues  Fall 
Out,"  a  story  of  a  railway  president's  at- 
tempts to  secure  a  franchise  in  which  he 
resorts  to  all  methods,  fair  and  foul.  The 
story  is  by  Helen  Holmes  who  appears 
as  the  daughter  of  the  railway  president. 
Others  in  the  cast  are  D.  H.  McDaniels, 
W.  R.  Weber,  and  L.  D.  Maloney. 

"Bloodhounds  of  the  North"  is  the  title 
given  a  Canadian  trading  camp  story 
written  by  Walter  Woods.  Agnes  Ver- 
non appears  in  this  as  the  daughter  of 
the  trading  post  keeper  whose  hand  is 
sought  by  a  sergeant  of  the  mounted 
pohce  and  a  cattle  rustler  who  poses  as 
a  trapper.  This  story  has  many  melo- 
dramatic scenes  with  all  the  thrills  of 
the  semi  wild  life  in  the  northwest. 

Three-Reeler  Deals  with  Life  of  Artists 

"Gilded  Youth"  is  the  title  of  a  three- 
reel  drama  dealing  with  life  in  the  art- 
ists' quarter  of  London,  in  which  three 
artists  care  for  the  child  of  one  of  their 
models,  and  who  becomes  infatuated 
with  a  vampire,  played  by  Elsie  Jane 


Wilson.  The  story  was  written  by  Ru- 
pert Julian,  who  is  in  charge  of  the 
directing  and  also  plays  the  leading  part, 
that  of  the  artist  who  fathers  the  youth 
and  prevents  him  from  wedding  the  vam- 
pire. Bertram  Grassby  appears  in  a 
prominent  part,  that  of  one  of  the  art- 
ists. Carmen  Phillips  as  the  model,  Hal 
Cooley  as  the  foster  son  of  the  artists, 
and  Rena  Rogers  as  the  girl  the  artists 
hope  their  son  will  wed. 

The  Joker  company  composed  of  Vic- 
tor Potel,  Smiling  Billy  Mason  and 
Teddy  Martin,  under  the  direction  of 
Roy  Clements,  have  filmed  "Safety 
First  and  Last,"  a  decidedly  timely 
comedy. 

This  week  the  "Broken  Coin"  com- 
pany began  the  filming  of  number 
twenty-two  of  the  series,  which  will  be 
the  last.  Following  this.  Director 
Francis  Ford  will  spend  a  vacation  in 
the  East,  and  all  members  of  the  com- 
pany will  be  given  a  holiday.  They  have 
been  working  on  this  constantly  for 
more  than  the  past  six  months. 

The  Joseph  Franz  Universal  company 
will  take  up  the  filming  of  "Klint  of  the 
Tree  Country,"  a  two-reel  drama  written 
by  Ben  Cohn,  in  which  Sherman  Bain- 
bridge,  Edith  Sterling  and  Rex  D. 
Rosella  appear  in  the  leading  parts. 

"Colonel  Steel,  Master  Gambler,"  is 
a  one-reel  story  being  filmed  for 
Laemmle  Brand  this  week.  Two  of  the 
principals  of  this  are  Edna  Payne  and 
Arthur  Moon. 

The  title  of  the  Meredith  Nicholson 
story  filmed  under  the  Direction  of  Otis 
Turner,  with  J.  Warren  Kerrigan  in  the 
name  part,  has  been  changed  from 
"Pennington's  Legacy"  to  "Langdon's 
Legacy."  The  filming  of  this  has  been 
completed. 

First  New  Keystone  Building  Finished 

The  first  of  the  new  buildings  for  the 
reconstructed  Keystone  studio  has  been 
completed.  This  consists  of  five  floors 
and  will  house  the  offices,  carpenter, 
paint  and  mechanical  shops,  and  work 
has  now  been  taken  up  in  the  construc- 
tion of  a  large  interior  studio  where  film- 
ing will  be  done  by  artificial  light.  No 
additional  space  near  the  present  site 
of  the  Keystone  plant  could  be  purchased 
except  a  large  hill  directly  back  of  the 
present  location.    This  was  bought,  and 


for  the  past  week  steam  shovels  and  an 
army  of  teams  and  workmen  have  been 
hauling  the  young  mountain  away.  This 
will  afford  a  fiat  space  where  an  interior 
studio  will  be  erected. 

Weber  and  Fields,  who  are  on  the 
Coast  for  appearance  in  Mack  Sennett 
Triangle  feature  comedies,  have  completed 
their  first  subject  and  are  now  working  on 
the  second. 

The  aim  of  one  of  the  cowboys  taking 
part  in  a  scene  in  which  Chimmie  Fad- 
den  is  initiated  out  west,  was  so  good 
that  the  paper  wad  of  the  blank  hit  Vic- 
tor Moore's  foot  just  astern  his  pet  corn, 
and  the  star  comedian  thereupon  gave 
to  the  film  some  decidedly  classy  steps 
tliat  had  not  been  rehearsed. 

"Micha,"  Geraldine  Farrar's  pet  goat 
used  in  subjects  filmed  recently,  chewed 
up  his  leather  collar  and  meandered 
around  the  studio  all  day  Sunday  and 
Sunday  night,  and  Monday  morning  he 
was  found  devouring  the  last  scrap  of 
paper  containing  the  plans  for  sets  for 
"Mr.  Grex  of  Monte  Carlo."  Fortunately 
many  of  the  sets  had  been  completed, 
but  it  so  happened  the  one  Micha  swal- 
lowed for  dessert  was  the  very  one  the 
technical  stafif  needed  at  once.  As  the 
result  the  "Mr.  Grex"  producing  com- 
pany was  held  up  for  two  days. 

TurnbuU  Play  for  Edna  Goodrich 

Hector  Turnbull  is  writing  a  photo- 
play in  which  Edna  Goodrich  will  be 
starred,  and  while  this  is  being  com- 
pleted. Director  George  Melford  is  taking 
a  short  vacation  which  he  is  spending  on 
a  hunting  trip. 

The  new  developing  and  finishing 
laboratory  at  the  Jesse  L.  Lasky  studio 
is  nearing  completion  and  will  be  ready 
for  occupancy  within  the  next  few  days. 

There  was  an  unfilmed  scene  enacted 
at  the  Lasky  studio  this  week  when  Hec- 
tor Turnbull's  automobile  was  christened 
"Shivering  Betsy,"  and  that  speed  demon 
of  Director  George  Melford  named  "The 
Stuttering  Doughnut."  This  christening 
is  a  prologue  to  a  big  race  act  that  i?.  to 
be  pulled  off  in  the  near  future  providing 
the  two  motor  enthusiasts  can  find  a 
fast  enough  track  to  accommodate  their 
cars  for  a  half-mile  race. 

"The  Wood  Nymph"  is  the  title  of  the 
first  Fine  Arts-Triangle  subject  in  which 
Marie  Doro  will  appear,  and  the  work 


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THE  WASP— November  1 

of  filming  this  was  taken  up  on  the  ar- 
rival of  the  actress  at  the  Griffith  studio 
this  week.  Supporting  Miss  Doro  will 
be  Mary  .-Mden,  Frank  Campeau,  Adoni 
Fovieri,  Wilfred  Lucas.  Charles  West 
and  F.  A.  Turner.  The  direction  will  be 
in  charge  of  Paul  Powell. 

The  first  subject  in  which  Norma  Tal- 
madge  will  be  seen  on  the  Triangle  pro- 
gram is  "The  Missing  Links,"  in  which 
she  will  be  supported  by  a  very  excellent 
cast. 

Another  large  property  room  has  been 
added  to  the  Fine  Arts  Film  studio,  mak- 
ing a  total  of  two  hundred  and  nine  per- 
manent buildings.  This  property  room 
is  60  X  200  feet  and  will  be  used  for  the 
storage  of  expensive  articles. 

A  number  of  buildings  of  a  distinct 
Spanish  type  of  the  sixteenth  century 
have  been  built  and  used  at  the  Fine  Arts 
Film  studio  in  the  filming  of  "Don 
Quixote,"  with  DeWolf  Hopper. 

Griffith  Players  Coming  East 

Mae  Marsh,  who  has  been  ill  for  sev- 
eral weeks,  is  now  fully  recovered,  and 
this  week  departed  for  the  New  York 
studio  in  company  with  a  number  of 
other  players,  including  Owen  Moore 
and  Dorothy  Gish  and  Alan  Dwan  who 
will  play  there  for  a  number  of  weeks. 

The  Pacific  Ocean  just  out  of  San  Diego 
Bay  furnished  the  setting  for  a  naval 
battle.  The  United  States  government 
furnished  the  principal  props,  a  number 
of  torpedo  boats,  destroyers,  warships 
and  other  boats  making  up  a  fair  sized 
squadron  for  scenes  made  this  week  for 
a  coming  NYMP  Triangle  subject.  The 
title  of  this  has  not,  and  will  not  be 
announced,  until  release  date.  The  bat- 
tle lasted  for  about  two  hours  during 
which  time  the  several  cameras  on  the 
job  exposed  more  than  six  thousand  feet 
of  film.  For  these  scenes  a  whaling  bark 
was  purchased  and  converted  into  an 
armed  cruiser  of  the  Bleucher  type. 
About  fifty  Ince  players,  directors  and 
technical  men  including  Thomas  H.  Ince, 
E.  H.  -Allen.  Directors  Raymond  B.  West 
and  Reginald  Barker  took  part  in  the 
making  of  these  scenes. 

The  government  boats  used  were  the 
torpedo  destroyers  Perry  and  Paul  Jones. 
U.  S.  tug  boat  Harris,  the  San  Diego, 
and  the  Spreckles   private   yacht.  The 


THE  SHERIFF  OF  WILLOW  CREEK— 
October  22 

prop  warship  was  battered  from  a  dis- 
tance of  twelve  thousand  yards  with 
eight  inch  guns  which  crushed  it  from 
stem  to  stern.  During  the  battle,  the 
San  Diego  ran  toward  the  bow  head  at 
full  speed  keeping  up  continuous  firing, 
and  the  battered  boat  finally  sank.  The 
scenes  made  are  said  to  have  cost  in 
the  neiborhood  of  eighteen  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

Charles  O.  Baumann.  of  the  New  York 
and  Kej'stone  companies,  is  here  from 
Xew  York  spendmg  several  weeks  with 
producers  Thomai.  H.  Ince  and  Mack 
Sennett. 

NYMP  Stages  Spectacular  Fire 

XYMP  employes,  with  the  exception  of 
members  of  the  William  S.  Hart  com- 
pany, were  given  a  real  treat  this  week 
in  the  manner  of  a  spectacular  entertain- 
ment when  the  completed  Western  vill- 
age, built  especially  for  a  Hart  produc- 
tion on  top  of  the  plateau,  was  destroyed 
by  fire.  All  buildings  which  were  used 
during  the  filming  of  the  scenes,  had 
roofs  of  diffusing  cloth  and  were  com- 
pleted prior  to  the  burning  of  the  village. 
Very  realistic  effects  were  obtained. 

.\  replica  of  the  New  York  Stock  Ex- 
change is  being  built  at  the  new  Culver 
City  site  of  the  NYMP  studio,  and  will 
be  the  first  set  built  there.  The  work 
on  the  studio  is  progressing  very  satis- 
factorily, the  stages  being  built  first  so 
that  work  can  be  commenced  there  and 
continued  during  the  completion  of  the 
Administration  building,  technical  shops, 
etc.  This  set  is  for  a  coming  H.  B.  War- 
ner subject. 

The  mission  set  at  Inceville,  which  has 
been  used  in  scores  of  photoplays,  lost 
its  appearance  this  week  when  it  was 
converted  into  the  court  yard  of  the 
palace  of  a  Balkan  ruler.  When  this 
work  is  completed  the  set  will  be  used 
in  a  coming  Bessie  Barriscale  subject, 
in  which  William  Desmond  will  play 
opposite  the  well  known  NYMP  star. 

.\rrangements  have  been  mj^de  with 
the  management  of  the  Trinity  Audi- 
torium in  Los  Angeles,  for  the  showing 
each  Mondaj-  of  Ince  features  for  the 
Triangle  program.  This  will  be  the 
final  "once-over"  given  the  pictures  by 
Thomas  H.  Ince  and  his  staflf.  Each  pic- 
ture will  have  specially  prepared  orches- 


ONE    TO    THE    MIinjTE— November  2 

tral  accompaniment  during  the  projec- 
rion. 

Willard  Mack  has  completed  his  en- 
gagement at  the  NYMP  studio,  and  has 
departed  for  the  East. 

William  S.  Hart,  grown  weary  of  the 
long  trolley  ride  to  and  from  Inceville 
daily,  has  purchased  an  automobile,  and 
finds  that  the  throttle  is  as  responsive  as 
the  spurs. 

Innovation  at  Lasky  Studio 

An  innovation  is  being  introduced  in 
the  making  of  two  subjects  at  one  time 
under  the  direction  of  one  person  at  the 
Jesse  L.  Lasky  studio.  The  two  photo- 
plays will  be  filmed  by  Cecil  B.  de  Mille, 
one  starring  Edna  Goodrich,  and  the 
other  co-starring  Fanny  Ward,  Jack 
Dean  and  Sessue  Hayakawa.  Both  are 
from  original  scenarios  by  Hector  Turn- 
bull  of  the  Lasky  scenario  department 

The  making  of  these  two  plays  at  one 
time  will  reciuire  two  complete  studio 
shifts,  one  to  work  at  night,  and  the 
other  during  the  day.  For  each  produc- 
tion there  will  be  an  entire  separate  and 
distinct  company  and  corps  of  assist- 
ants, with  the  exception  of  Alvin 
Wyckoff,  who  will  do  the  p\iotocraphic 
work  in  the  making  of  both  pictures. 
With  the  Goodrich  picture.  Mr.  de  Mille 
will  be  assisted  by  William  Horowitz 
and  with  the  tri-star  subject  by  Harry 
Hatfield,  late  legitimate  stage  producer.  Mr. 
De  Mille  is  just  finishing  the  last  few  scenes 
for  the  second  Victor  Moore  "Chimmie 
Fadden"  subject.  For  these  scenes,  the 
entire  town  of  Newhall.  Cal..  was  rented 
for  two  days.  The  Lask\-  company  went  to 
the  tj'pical  Western  town  in  a  special  train 
of  nine  cars,  and  with  the  aid  of  all  the 
villagers  made  big  mob  scenes. 

It  has  been  definitely  decided  by  the 
Lasky  company  to  remain  at  the  present 
studio  indefinitely,  and  probably  perma- 
nently, it  being  understood  that  they  have 
given  up  all  plans  of  moving  to  a  different 
location  as  was  their  intention  earlier  in  the 
season.  The  fact  that  the  remainder  of  the 
unoccupied  portion  of  the  block  on  which 
the  studio  is  located  has  been  leased,  leads 
to  the  conclusion  that  their  present  home 
will  be  a  permanent  one.  The  negotiations 
for  the  additional  ground  were  completed 
this  week,  and  this  will  give  the  company 
a  space  of  300  x  650  feet,  and  afford  ampl^' 


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space  for  the  building  of  many  large  sets 
such  as  their  productions  may  require.  The 
entire  block  will  be  enclosed,  bearing  the 
name  of  Lasky  Features  on  all  four  sides. 
The  new  laboratory  building  now  under 
construction  is  rapidly  nearing  completion, 
and  will  be  pressed  into  use  within  the  next 
few  days. 

Burro  Develops  Temperamentitis 

"Ramona,"  the  burro  heretofore  used  in 
dramatic  productions  at  the  Lasky  studio, 
where  she  has  "supported"  Geraldine  Far- 
rar  in  "Carmen"  and  "Marie  Rosa";  Lou 
Tellegen  in  "The  Unknown,"  Edgar  Sel- 
■wyn  in  "The  Arab"  and  other  similar  stars, 
■developed  an  acute  case  of  temperamentitis 
this  week  when  requested  to  play  in  several 
scenes  of  the  comedy  subject  "Chimmie 
Fadden  Out  West."  At  first  the  leading 
■burro  absolutely  refused  to  make  up,  and 
"was  finally  induced  to  do  so,  after  much 
laying  back  of  the  ears,  by  the  purchase  of 
Indiana  clover  hay,  and  the  assurance  that 
she  would  have  her  name  on  the  screen  and 
two  close-ups  with  the  star,  Victor  Moore. 
Because  of  his  recent  refusal,  the  members 
of  the  company  have  been  treating  her  ex- 
ceptionally well,  and  she  now  rides  to  loca- 
tion in  state,  occupying  the  rear  seat  of  an 
automobile  with  a  footman  on  either  side. 

The  work  of  filming  the  next  Universal 
serial  which  is  to  immediately  follow  "The 
Broken  Coin,"  was  begun  this  week  under 
the  direction  of  Richard  Stanton  with 
Hobart  Henley  in  the  star  part  of  the  young 
man  who  battles  against  crooked  politics, 
first  as  a  district  attorney,  later  as  judge, 
representative  and  congressman.  There 
will  be  fifteen  episodes  in  this  subject,  each 
of  two  reels,  and  the  story  for  each  one 
written  by  a  separate  author. 

In  many  of  the  episodes  Director  Stanton 
will  also  play  in  prominent  parts,  and  the 
principal  members  of  the  big  cast  who  have 
50  far  been  selected  to  play  in  all  fifteen 
episodes  of  this  serial  are  Jane  Novak,  Glen 
White  and  Ray  Stanford.  The  first  release 
of  this  serial  will  in  all  probability  be  made 
on  November  22. 

Selig  Tiger  in  Animal  Drama 

Rajah,  the  big  tiger  of  the  Selig  Zoo,  con- 
sidered the  largest  in  America,  is  this  week 
being  featured  in  a  one-reel  East  Indian 
animal  picture  produced  by  Lloyd  B.  Carle- 
ton,  with  a  cast  composed  of  Edward  Peil, 
Vivian  Reed,  C.  C.  Holland  and  others. 
The  title  of  this  is  "The  Sacred  Tiger  of 
Agra." 

Another  new  subject  being  filmed  is  an 
African  animal  story  entitled  "Jumbo's 
timely  Rescue,"  with  a  cast  composed  of 
Edith  Johnson,  Harry  Lonsdale,  Leo  Pear- 
son and  others.  Tillie,  the  largest  of  the 
John  Robison  herd  of  elephants,  plays  a 
very  important  part  in  this,  which  the 
makers  believe  will  cause  a  sensation  when 
It  is  shown  on  the  screen. 

At  the  Edendale  Selig  studio,  the  finish- 
ing scenes  of  the  three-reel  subject  adapted 
from  the  Richard  Harding  Davis  short 
story,  "The  Buried  Treasure  of  Cobre,"  are 
l)eing  made  under  the  direction  of  Frank 
Beal.  Harry  Mestayer  is  featured  in  this 
subject,  which  is  laid  in  South  America. 

Scenario  has  been  prepared  for  a  Selig 
V-L-S-E  subject  which  is  to  be  made  by 
Colin  Campbell  and  co-stars,  Tyron  Power 
and  Kathlyn  Williams.    This  will  consist 


of  five  reels,  and  the  present  title  selected 
is  "Thy  Neighbor's  Wife." 

Members  of  "The  Diamond  from  the 
Sky"  celebrated  the  completion  of  their 
sixty-reel  serial  by  a  dinner  served  at  the 
Challet  Cafe  at  Santa  Barbara.  Lottie 
Pickford  wrote  a  special  song  for  the  oc- 
casion, and  Director  William  D.  Taylor 
was  presented  with  a  handsome  silver  lov- 
ing cup  by  members  of  the  cast. 

First  Weber  and  Fields  Subject  Finished 

The  first  Weber  and  Fields  subject,  "The 
Best  of  Enemies,"  made  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Frank  Griffin  and  the  supervision 
of  Mack  Sennett,  was  completed  and  for- 
warded to  the  New  York  office  of  the  Tri- 
angle this  week.  This  deals  with  the  ef- 
forts of  the  pair  of  German  comedians  to 
break  into  society,  and  because  of  their  ri- 
valry, Fields  is  accused  of  murdering  Weber 
when  the  latter  suddenly  disappears.  He 
is  tried,  convicted,  taken  to  the  death  house, 
later  to  the  scaffold,  and  the  hangman  has 
counted  two  when  Weber  suddenly  puts  in 
an  appearance  and  prevents  the  killing. 
Supporting  the  famous  comedians  are 
Chester  Conklin,  Max  Swain,  May  Bush, 
Frank  Opperman,  Guy  Woodward  and 
others. 

"Saved  by  Wireless"  is  the  other  Key- 
stone subject  completed  this  week,  in  which 
many  of  the  scenes  were  made  to  represent 
pictures  taken  of  action  on  one  aeroplane 
as  seen  from  another.  The  making  of  this 
was  under  the  direction  of  Walter  Wright, 
who  is  head  cameraman  at  the  Keystone 
studio,  and  who  is  entitled  to  the  credit 
of  some  wonderful  trick  photography  ef- 
fects. Chester  Conklin  and  Max  Swain 
perform  a  number  of  sensational  stunts  in 
and  about  the  aeroplane  as  it  presumably 
soars  through  the  air. 

Fred  Mace  is  now  being  featured  in  a 
very  remarkable  part  which  requires  that 

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he  be  cross-eyed  through  the  entire  two 
reels  of  Keystone  comedy.  The  title  of 
this  is  "A  Janitor's  Wife's  Temptation." 
This  is  the  first  time  any  comedian  has 
been  able  to  put  this  act  over,  and  the 
many  scenes  that  have  been  projected  in- 
dicated that  Mace  has  added  another  nov- 
elty to  the  screen. 

Carlyle  Ellis,  free  lance  fiction  and  maga- 
zine writer,  specially  engaged  by  the  Tri- 
angle Film  Corporation,  has  arrived  at  the 
Coast  to  write  special  feature  stories  re- 
garding the  three  studios  located  in  Los 
Angeles.  WilHam  Collier  will  arrive  at 
the  Keystone  studio  within  a  few  days  to 
begin  an  engagement.  He  is  particularly 
well  known  for  his  successful  stage  career 
during  which  he  played  the  star  part  in 
"Never  Say  Die,"  "On  the  Quiet,"  "The 
Dictator,"  "The  Man  from  Mexico,"  and 
his  most  recent  success  was  that  of  "Hello, 
Broadway,"  with  George  Cohan. 

Charles  Fais,  for  the  past  several  years 
with  the  David  Horsley  interests  in  Los 
Angeles,  has  been  engaged  by  Business 
Manager  George  Stout,  of  the  Keystone 
Film  Company,  and  Mr.  Fais  will  now  act 
as  purchasing  agent. 
Selig  Engages  Louis  J.  Cody 

Louis  J.  Cody,  who  came  to  the  Coast 
for  a  special  engagement  at  the  NYMP 
studio,  and  later  was  with  the  Balboa 
Company,  where  he  was  featured  in  sev- 
eral productions,  has  been  engaged  by  the 
Selig  Company,  and  began  his  first  work 
there  this  week  in  an  important  part  in  the 
film  version  of  the  Richard  Harding  Davis 
short  story,  "The  Buried  Treasure  of  Co- 
bre," being  produced  by  Frank  R.  Beal  in 
which  Harry  Mestayer  plays  the  featured 
part. 

Florence  Rockwell  has  arrived  at  the 
Pallas  Pictures  studio  and  this  week  began 
work  in  the  filming  of  an  adaption  from 
the  well-known  E.  P.  Roe  novel,  "He  Fell 
In  Love  with  His  Wife,"  which  will  be  the 
first  picture  for  the  Paramount  program 
produced  under  the  direction  of  William 
D.  Taylor,  late  producer  of  "The  Diamond 
from  the  Sky,"  North  American  serial. 

The  last  scenes  for  the  Dustin  Farnum 
Pallas  Pictures  subject,  "The  Call  of  The 
Cumberland,"  were  made  this  week,  and 
for  these  a  very  elaborate  interior  of  a 
gun  club  home  in  the  mountains  was  built. 
The  set  was  30  x  70  and  consisted  of  a 
number  of  rooms  all  connected  by  big 
openings  which  permits  a  general  view  of 
all  parts.  Prominent  in  the  interior  fur- 
nishings were  handsome  fireplaces.  The 
set  was  designed  and  built  under  the  di- 
rection of  Earl  Sibley,  technical  director 
for  this  studio. 

The  Oliver  Morosco  subject,  "The 
Tongues  of  Men,"  featuring  Constance 
Collier,  supported  by  Forrest  Stanley,  will 
have  some  very  novel  professional  dancing 
scenes  in  which  the  Egan  dancing  girls  of 
the  Orpheum  circuit  took  part.  These 
scenes  were  made  for  this  theatrical  story 
this  week.  The  troupe  consisted  of  fifteen 
Los  Angeles  High  School  girls  who  were 
graduates  of  the  Egan  school  at  Los  An- 
geles, and  will  shortly  begin  a  tour  over 
the  big  time  vaudeville  circuit. 

H.  E.  Roach,  president  and  director  of 
the  Rolin  Film  Company,  arrived  home 
this  week  and  immediately  took  up  the 
filming  of  additional  subjects  of  the  "Lone- 


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Vol.  12.    No.  18. 


some  Luke"  series,  released  over  the 
Phunphilm  brand  by  Pathe. 

Charles  Roacher,  who  has  been  connected 
with  the  Lasky,  Universal  and  other  promi- 
nent producing  companies,  has  been  added 
to  the  staff  of  the  Rolin  company  in  the 
capacity  of  head  of  the  photographic  de- 
partment. 

NEWS  OF  THE  WEEK  IN  AND  ABOUT 
SAN  DIEGO 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

San  Diego,  Cal.,  Oct.  23. 

The  Lubin  Company  has  been  busy  the 
past  week,  completing  the  three-reeler,  "The 
Convict  King,"  and  putting  on  two  other 
films,  "Two  News  Items"  and  "The  Dia- 
mond Thief." 

Mr.  Sloman  has  been  directing  "Two 
News  Items,"  a  script  by  Julian  LaMothe, 
dealing  to  some  extent  with  the  phases  of 
capital  and  labor,  or  affluence  and  poverty. 
One  news  item  is  that  about  the  death  of 
a  woman  without  a  cent  in  the  world,  her 
end  self-inflicted,  an  event  which  received 
a  few  lines  in  the  paper.  The  other  item 
tells  about  a  gift  of  $10,000  to  the  poor  by 
a  man  of  wealth,  and  yet  this  man's  avarice 
is  the  real  cause  of  the  woman's  suicide. 
The  story  of  his  generosity  fills  columns 
of  the  papers.  The  woman  and  her  hus- 
band were  tenants  in  one  of  his  slum  tene- 
ments, and  the  husband,  desperate-  in  his 
inability  to  secure  work,  turns  thief.  The 
woman  is  evicted  and  decides  to  end  it  all. 
Adda  Gleason  plays  the  wife.  Jay  Morley 
the  husband,  L.  C.  Shumway  the  man  of 
wealth,  and  Adelaide  Bronti  the  sympathetic 
neighbor  of  the  couple. 

In  "The  Diamond  Thief,"  a  one-reeler, 
George  Routh  plays  the  thief,  Helen  Wol- 
cott  his  accomplice  and  Ronald  Bradbury 
the  jeweler  who  is  robbed.  Capt  Wilbert 
Melville  and  Melvin  Mayo  directed  the 
production  of  this  play. 

Helen  Wolcott  is  one  of  the  newer  mem- 
bers of  the  Lubin  company.  She  was  born 
in  Denver  and  played  for  a  time  in  the 
Garden  stock  company  in  that  city.  Since 
coming  to  the  Coast  she  has  been  in  pic- 
tures with  the  Bosworth  and  Selig  com- 
panies at  Los  Angeles.  She  is  an  excellent 
swimmer  and  finds  much  sport  in  the  surf 
off  Coronado  Beach.  However,  one  day 
the  past  week,  she  had  an  experience  with 
a  surf-board  which  she  does  not  care  to 
repeat,  as  she  bears  a  number  of  bruises 
sustained  while  trying  to  manage,  a  la  Ka- 
nake,  an  obstreperous  board  in  a  heavy 
surf. 

Mr.  Bradbury  is  also  a  new  member  of 
the  company  at  Coronado.  He  began  life 
at  Walla  Walla,  Wash.,  and  has  had  many 
years  of  stage  experience,  having  put  in 
about  fourteen  years  in  the  legitimate,  play- 
ing with  such  people  as  Theodore  and 
Florence  Roberts,  Nance  O'Neill,  Catherine 
Countiss  and  others.  He  was  in  stock  with 
the  Willard  Mack  company  and  has  also 
had  out  his  own  road  companies.  For  a 
time  he  wrote  scripts  for  Bosworth  and 
the  Vitagraph,  before  joining  the  Lubin 
forces.  He  has  had  a  number  of  plays  on 
the  boards  in  the  past,  and  was  out  on  the 
Orpheum  circuit  for  a  time. 

Adelaide  Bronti  has  been  with  the  Lubin 
Company  for  a  year,  doing  character  work. 
She  was  born  in  L'tica,  N.  Y.,  and  for  a 


number  of  years  was  in  comic  opera  work. 
About  three  years  ago  she  went  with  the 
Biograph  Company,  and  has  also  played  be- 
fore the  camera  with  the  Universal  and 
American. 

Vivian  Caples  has  closed  her  engagement 
with  the  Lubin  Company  and  left  for  San 
Francisco  by  steamer. 

Mrs.  Wilbert  Melville  has  been  passing 
the  week  in  Los  Angeles,  and  Capt.  Mel- 
ville has  gone  north  in  his  yacht,  the  Ver- 
gana,  to  join  her. 

J.  C.  Jessen,  Los  Angeles  correspondent 
of  Motion  Picture  News,  visited  the  new- 


ly opened  studio  in  San  Diego  recently. 

Work  has  been  started  by  the  Lubins  on 
a  three-reeler,  "The  Bond  Within,"  a  story 
dealing  with  the  theme  of  mother  love 
It  is  one  of  Julian  LeMothe's  scripts. 

One  hundred  members  of  the  San  Diego 
naval  and  coast  artillery  militia  left  in  spe- 
cial cars  for  Santa  Ana,  where  they  will  go 
into  camp  for  three  days  at  the  expense  of 
a  motion  picture  company  which  is  to  take 
scenes  in  a  big  war  drama.  Full  field 
equipment  was  taken.  It  is  reported  the 
New  York  Motion  Picture  Company  is 
back  of  the  project.     Allen  H.  Wright. 


Board  of  Trade  Will  Fight  New  York  Constitution 


Failure  of  Revision  Leaders  to  Insert  Plank 
Warrants  Rejection  of  All  Their 

THE  Motion  Picture  Board  of  Trade  of 
America,  representing  the  responsible 
elements  of  the  motion  picture  industry,  is 
beginning  an  active  campaign  against  the 
adoption  of  the  proposed  new  constitution 
of  the  state  of  New  York. 

When  a  committee  representing  the  mo- 
tion picture  industry  asked  for  a  hearing 
before  the  Constitutional  Convention  lead- 
ers at  Albany  on  the  insertion  of  a  plank 
guaranteeing  as  full  liberty  to  motion  pic- 
tures as  is  now  accorded  to  newspapers 
and  the  spoken  drama,  it  was  shown  scant 
courtesy  by  the  Bill  of  Rights  Committee 
at  the  convention. 

The  following  resolution  has  been  passed 
by  the  directors  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Board  of  Trade : 

Upon  motion  duly  made,  seconded  and 
carried,  it  was 

RESOLVED,  that  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors of  the  Motion  Picture  Board  of  Trade 
of  America,  Inc.,  condemns  the  action  of 
the  Bill  of  Rights  Committee  of  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention,  held  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  during  the  months  of  July,  August 
and  September,  for  the  purpose  of  formu- 
lating amendments  to  the  present  consti- 
tution of  the  state  of  New  York,  such  con- 
stitution so  amended  to  be  submitted  to  a 
vote  of  the  people  this  November;  in  re- 
fusing to  report  to  the  convention  the  pro- 
posed amendment,  by  which  it  was  pro- 
vided that  the  motion  picture  as  a  vehicle 


Guaranteeing  Full  Liberty  to  Motion  Pictures 
Proposals,  Organization  Declares 

of  thought  transmission  was  to  be  granted 
the  same  liberty  from  legalized  pre-pub- 
licity  censorship  now  enjoyed  by  the  press ; 
such  action  on  behalf  of  the  committee 
being  discriminatory  and  contrary  to  the 
best  interests  of  the  people,  in  that  it  failed 
to  protect  them  from  the  possibilitj-  of  such 
censorship — the  arbitrary  act  of  the  few 
over  the  many — conceived  in  ignorance,  in- 
tolerance, prejudice  or  malice,  and,  there- 
fore, contrary  to  the  principles  of  freedom 
and  free  expression  of  thought  upon  which 
this  country  is  founded. 

FURTHER  RESOLVED,  that  this  as- 
sociation use  its  influence  in  behalf  of,  and 
in  every  way  possible  lend  its  encourage- 
ment and  support  to  the  press  and  all  other 
agencies  in  their  endeavor  to  cause  the  peo- 
ple to  reject  at  the  polls  the  amendments 
adopted  by  the  said  convention ;  such  re- 
jection  being  thoroughly  justified  upon  the 
ground  that  a  convention  so  constituted  as 
to  fail  to  recognize  that  censorship  is  an 
attack  upon  the  bulwarks  of  our  freedom, 
and  to  protect  our  people  from  such  at- 
tack, is  not  of  a  disposition  which  would 
justify  the  approval  of  the  results  of  its 
deliberations. 

(Signed)  Walter  W.  Irwin,  director 
and  chairman  of  committee;  J.  W.  Binder, 
director;  Wm.  A.  Johnston,  director;  S. 
L.  Rothapfel,  director;  Nicholas  Power, 
director;  J.  E.  Brulatour,  director,  and 
Edward  A.  MacManus,  secretary. 


Triangles  to  Pierce  Boston  Film  Field  at  2  Points 

Griffith-Inee-Sennett  Pictures  Will,  It  Is  Predicted,  Be  Shown  at  the  Oljmpia  on  ScoUay 
Square  and  the  Olympia  in  Washington  Street 


Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Boston,  Oct.  26. 

THE  Triangle  will  not  have  a  theatre  of 
its  own  in  Boston.  From  time  to  time 
most  of  the  theatres  in  the  city  have  en- 
tered into  the  discussion.  Recently  the 
Tremont  and  the  Colonial  loomed  largest 
as  film  possibilities  in  connection  with  the 
Triangle. 

But  whatever  plans  the  Triangle  had  re- 
garding a  house  of  its  own  in  the  Hub  have 
been  given  up.  Manager  Bradley  of  the 
New  England  Triangle  office  in  Boston  did 
not  know  of  this  fact  until  the  News  man 
told  him  of  it.  The  tip  to  the  News  also 
said  that  the  Triangle  had  reached  an 
agreement  with  the  Gordon  Amusement 
Company,   by   which   its   films   would  be 


shown  to   Boston   motion  picture  lovers. 

When  questioned  as  to  this  a  high  official 
in  the  Gordon  offices  denied  that  such  an 
agreement  had  been  reached  with  that  com- 
pany, but  he  said  that  a  similar  agreement 
might  have  been  made  with  the  Olympia 
amusement  interests,  which  controls  the 
various  Olympia  theatres  throughout  this 
section. 

In  Boston  there  are  two  Olympias,  in 
ScoUay  Square  and  on  Washington  street 
at  the  foot  of  Boylston  street.  Indications 
at  this  writing  are  that  Triangle  will  be 
shown  in  these  two  houses  and  in  the  Ohm- 
pia  string  in  other  cities  in  this  section. 

At  present  Manager  Bradley  is  busy  on 
plans  for  a  Triangle  exchange  in  Boston. 

Leslie  H.  Allen. 


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73 


JUST   TO   MAKE  TALK 

By  LONGACRE 

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ENGLAND  and  matters  English  are 
occupying  a  prominent  part  in  the 
worries  of  the  established  producing 
concerns.  Time  was,  up  to  the  start  of 
the  present  war,  when  the  export  sales 
totalled  considerably  more  than  half  of 
the  income  of  the  oldest  and  most  reputable 
companies  in  the  business.  In  fact  the 
producing  machinery  was  geared  to  fit  the 
■  foreign  market  '  for,  in  many  cases,  Ameri- 
can distribution  practically  took  care  of 
itself. 

Now,  not  only  is  the  "foreign  market"  all 
siiot  to  bits  by  the  war  but  the  juice  of  what 
profits  did  remain  from  purely  British 
sales  has  been  extracted  by  the  new  duty 
levied  on  films  taken  into  England.  This 
duty  is  one-third  of  the  estimated  value  of 
the  films. 


Manufacturers  usually  send  a  negative  to 
England  and  have  the  prints  made  there. 
But  the  new  tax  estimates  the  value  of 
these  negatives  and  then  charges  one-third 
of  that  value.  England,  alone,  is  not  a  ter- 
ritory of  large  sales.  On  certain  kinds  of 
features  England  only  can  use  two  or  three 
prints.  Of  course  the  days  when  London 
was  the  clearing  house  for  the  civilized 
world,  except  America,  are  over,  for  one 
might  say  that  the  civilized  world  is  at  war, 
if  this  be  not  too  paradoxical.  So  now 
that  London  handles  prints  for  England 
alone,  this  tax  takes  all  the  fun  out  of  do- 
ing business,  as  far  as  American  companies 
are  concerned. 


One  big  company  has  solved  the  problem 
to  the  best  of  its  ability  by  having  a  few 
films  selected  for  exportation  by  a  man  who 
spent  some  time  in  England,  studying  the 
British  market  with  which  he  is  fairly  con- 
versant. He  O.  K.'s  for  exportation  prac- 
tically only  serials  and  comedies.  So  it  is 
easy  to  see  that  American  producers  must 
now  look  to  America  more  than  ever  for 
their  expenses  and  profits. 


Who  says  a  girl  needs  an  education  to  be 
a  screen  star? 

One  of  our  best  known  leading  ingenues 
was  out  of  town  recently  taking  scenes 
with  a  supporting  company  in  a  picture  laid 
among  fisher  folk. 

At  the  dinner  table  the  leading  man,  just 
to  make  talk,  said : 

"I  think  those  nautical  scenes  we  took 
today  will  screen  pretty  well." 

The  leading  lady  began  to  titter. 

"I  didn't  know  we  took  any  naughty 
scenes,"  she  said. 


Photoplayers'  night  at  the  new  roller 
skating  rink  at  the  North  end  of  Longacre 
Square  was  a  gay  affair.  Harry  Meyers 
brought  along  his  own  hand-raised  cham- 
pion, but  the  pride  of  Coytesville  was  not  in 


shape  and  didn't  win  his  race.  A  Univer- 
sal husky,  whose  display  of  form  brought 
forth  many  ecstatic  shrieks  from  the  gallery, 
won  the  long  race  easily.  Rosemary  Theby, 
more  beautiful  than  on  the  screen  if  pos- 
sible, presented  the  cups  to  the  winners  and 
champagne  flowed  like  mucilage.  Among 
the  screen  artists  there  were :  Maurice 
Costello,  Gladden  James,  Paul  Panzer  and 
Hal  .August.  Then  there  were  Ed  Carewe, 
Billy  Barry,  "Kid"'  Hogan  and  Bill  Swan- 
son,  in  town  from  the  West. 


the  trials  and  tribulations  of  the  man  try- 
ing to  take  motion  pictures  at  the  front  m 
Europe. 


JULIUS  STERN 

Never  a  dull  moment  at  the  Screen  Club 
these  days  with  one  member  importuning 
the  Supreme  Court  to  retain  for  him  his 
"place  in  the  sun."  Injunctions  are  flying 
thick  and  fast.  The  funny  part  of  the 
whole  thing  is  that  at  least  om  injunction 
has  changed  the  man  on  whom  it  was 
served  from  a  neutral  to  an  active  partici- 
pant in  the  fray. 


Francis  X.  Bushman  and  his  Quality- 
Metro  producing  company  have  found  a 
home  and  a  guiding  hand  at  last.  George 
Wiley  has  been  secured  as  business  man- 
ager of  the  company ;  Don  Meaney  remain- 
ing in  an  executive  capacity.  The  company 
is  working  at  the  old  Colonial  studios  in 
West  Thirty-fifth  street,  New  York  city, 
one  of  the  best  equipped  and  best  lighted 
small  studios  imaginable. 


Metro  will  soon  issue  two  reel  pictures^ 
with  its  well  known  stars,  including  Fran- 
cis X.  Bushman,  featured,  it  is  under- 
stood. 


Gordon  Trent  says  an  Essanay  actor  is 
"nursing  a  severe  attack  of  hay  fever."  Why 
nurse  it?    Why  not  try  to  kill  it? 


Now  comes  the  Paragon  Film  Inc.,  with 
studios  at  Fort  Lee,  which  will  release 
through  A\  orld  Film.  The  chief  interest 
centers  about  the  personnel  of  those  con- 
cerned. ^Maurice  Tourneur  is  vice-president 
and  general  manager.  With  him  will  be 
Directors  Capellani  and  Chautard.  Thus 
are  three  sons  of  France  putting  up  a  won- 
derful commercial  and  artistic  fight  on 
American  soil,  for  they  are  three  of  the 
very  best  directors  in  the  business. 

Tourneur's  mail  must  be  heavy  these 
days.  He  just  hinted  that  he  wanted  a 
man  to  read  the  scenarios  submitted. 


W.  Glenmore  Davis,  known  to  Broad- 
way as  "Stuft'y,"'  is  to  have  his  face  and 
soft  collar  handed  down  to  his  children's 
children.  He  also  startled  his  associates. 
For  he  recently  went  to  W-O-R-K  in  mov- 
ing pictures.  He  plays  himself,  a  press 
agent,  in  a  forthcoming  Gaumont  Casino 
■comedy  with  Tom  and  May  Waters.  "Stuf- 
fy" is  funny,  even  in  street  clothes,  uncon- 
sciously, undeniablv  funnv. 


Two  years'  absence  from  home  surround- 
ings have  not  lessened  the  keen  interest  of 
George  Loane  Tucker  in  the  doings  of  his 
old  associates.  Since  leaving  New  York, 
Mr.  Tucker  has  been  producing  pictures 
for  the  London  Film  Co.,  Ltd.,  the  studio 
of  which  is  at  St.  Margaret's,  near  Twick- 
enham, Middlesex,  England. 

A  letter  from  Mr.  Tucker  encloses  a 
draft  for  $100  for  the  Motion  Picture  Hos- 
pital Fund,  in  the  sending  of  which  he  says 
he  takes  a  great  deal  of  plea.sure.  The 
draft  has  been  turned  over  to  .Adolph 
Zukor,  treasurer  of  the  fund.  It  is  the  larg- 
est single  contribution  so  far  received. 


'Way  from  Chicago  comes  a  full  page  of 
war  story  with  Joe  Farnham's  face  in  the 
middle  of  it.    Joe  draws  a  vivid  picture  of 


One  of  the  busiest  men  in  the  film  indus- 
try these  days  is  Julius  Stern,  manager  of 
the  L^niversal's  eastern  studios. 

His  office  is  situated  at  present  at  the 
Imp  studio  at  Forty-third  street  and 
Eleventh  avenue,  New  York,  but  in  a  few 
weeks  he  will  move  his  entire  staff'  to  the 
big  new  studio  which  i»  now  being  com- 
pleted at  Leonia.  New  Jersey. 

At  the  present  time  Mr.  Stern  has  more 
directors,  more  actors,  more  scenario  writ- 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    No.  18 


World  Series  Baseball  Films  Better  Than  Last  Year 

Miles  Receives  Scores  of  Inquiries  for  Pictures  Showing  Diamond  Tug-of-War  Between 
Boston  and  Philadelphia  and  Many  Exhibitors  Wire  for  Bookings 

camera  work  is  new.    Instead  of  stationing 


INNUMERABLE  inquiries  for  bookings 
on  the  world's  series  sets,  covering  the 
five  baseball  games  between  Boston  and 
Philadelphia  for  the  world's  championship 
are  being  received  by  Manager  Joseph  R. 
Miles  of  the  World's  Series  Film  Company, 
New  York. 

A  number  of  exhibitors  have  wired  for 
bookings  as  late  as  in  December,  proving 
pretty  well  that  they  realize  these  pictures 
will  be  an  attraction  for  the  entire  winter. 

Manager  Miles,  in  view  of  this  avalanche 
of  inquiries,  has  decided  to  change  his 
original  idea  of  open  bookings  and  is  of- 
fering the  series  to  territorial  buyers. 
Wideawake  buyers,  including  a  number  of 
prominent  exhibitors  are  taking  advantage 
of  this  opportunity. 

This  world's  series  set  of  pictures  de- 
serves the  very  best  that  can  be  said  of 
them.  Two  sets  are  offered,  one  of  five 
reels,  covering  each  of  the  five  games  and 
another  of  three  reels  which  shows  the  im- 
portant plays  of  the  first  four  games  and 
the  entire  fifth  or  deciding  game. 

The  photography  is  excellent,  and  the 


several  cameras  around  the  grounds  to 
catch  separate  plays  and  relying  on  these 
solely,  a  camera  also  caught  the  action  of 
the  game  from  the  home  plate. 

The  four  famous  home  runs  of  the  series 
can  be  seen  on  the  screen  from  beginning 
to  end.  Close-ups  are  also  shown  of  the 
players,  the  governors  of  Massachusetts 
and  Pennsylvania,  the  mayors  of  the  two 
cities,  and  one  of  President  Wilson  and  his 
fiancee,  Mrs.  Gait,  which  is  said  to  be  the 
best  close-up  of  the  president  thus  far  se- 
cured for  motion  pictures. 

All  these  points  distinguish  the  present 
world's  series  pictures  from  those  of  1913 
and  1914  and  are  responsible  for  their 
greatly  superior  quality. 

Manager  Miles  recommends  that  buyers 
of  territory  book  with  the  exhibitor  on  a 
percentage  basis.  He  believes  this  arrange- 
ment will  insure  greater  return  for  the 
buyer.  The  interest  in  the  pictures  should 
last,  like  fight  pictures,  for  a  long  time. 
They  really  bring  the  big  games,  in  all  their 
reality,  to  those  who  did  not  see  them. 


Ask  Clean  Health  Bill  for  Banned  "Damaged  Goods" 

Los  Angeles  Will  .Seek  Injunction  Against  Censors,  Who  Threatened  to  Confiscate  Bennett- 
Mutual  Subject  if  Exhibitors  Attempted  to  Show  the  Picture  in  the  City 


era,  more  property-men,  scene  shifters  and 
so  forth  than  the  limited  quarters  will  per- 
mit. The  result  is  that  some  of  the  direc- 
tors have  to  work  nights  in  order  to  pro- 
duce their  pictures.  In  other  words  he  has 
a  day  shift  and  a  night  shift. 

The  directors  now  working  on  three 
stages  at  the  Imp  are  Lawrence  Marston, 
Henry  McRae  Webster,  Charles  Weston, 
Allen  Holubar,  Brinsley  Shaw,  Ben  Wilson, 
Raymond  L.  Shrock,  and  Matt  Moore. 


Columbia  University  is  going  t  >  elevate 
the  art  of  the  photoplay.  Professor  Victor 
O.  Freeburg,  who  is  a  doctor  of  philosophy, 
will  conduct  a  course  in  scenario  writing. 
Thus  comes  the  practical  operation  of  a 
plan  often  suggested.  It  is  devoutly  to  be 
hoped  that  other  colleges  will  follow  this 
lead. 


Must  have  been  some  opening  of  Metro 
pictures  at  the  Imperial  theatre,  Montreal, 
Canada.  "The  High  Road"  was  shown  to 
a  distinguished  and  enthusiastic  audience. 
Valli  Valli  and  Ed  Brennan,  the  stars,  ap- 
peared and  made  short  speeches.  Miss  Valli 
was  presented  by  Herbert  Lubin,  managing 
director  of  Metro  Pictures,  Ltd.,  with  a 
sterling  silver  flower  'basket  while  Brennan 
drew  a  cigarette  case.  Metro  pictures  will 
be  seen  in  Canada  from  now  on. 


Wonderful  Sarah  Bernhardt !  "Jeanne 
Dore,"  taken  since  the  amputation  of  a  leg, 
will  preserve  her  for  posterity.  Mme.  Bern- 
hardt does  not  look  more  than  forty  on 
the  screen.  The  only  pity  is  that  no  record 
has  yet  been  made  of  Mme.  Bernhardt  as 
she  looks  in  private  life  today.  At  seventy 
years  she  is  a  remarkable  woman. 


Triangle  pictures  are  being  lined  up  by 
the  biggest  and  most  stable  exhibitors  of 
the  country.  Gordon  has  taken  them  in 
Boston,  Archer  brothers  in  Chicago  and 
the  Dusenburys  in  Columbus.  Then,  of 
course,  there  are  Hexter  of  Cleveland  and 
Kemble  of  Brooklyn. 

That  reminds  one  that  "The  Birth  of  a 
Nation"  is  reported  as  opening  in  London 
to  good,  but  not  great,  business. 


IN  AND  OUT  OF  TOWN 

The  Biograph  producing  forces,  114 
strong,  will  leave  for  the  Coast  this  week. 

Capt.  Harry  Lambart,  of  the  Mirror 
Films  and  Jack  Cunningham,  press  repre- 
sentative, are  on  a  trip  to  Chicago  which 
Jack  admits  is  "mysterious."' 


CHANGES  OF  THE  WEEK 

Stanley  Walpole,  just  back  from  Austra- 
lia, is  playing  with  the  Arrow-Pathe  forces. 

George  Beban  will  work  for  Maurice 
Tourneur  at  the  new  Paragon  studios. 

Constance  Johnston,  late  of  Lasky,  joins 
Universal. 

Al  Ray,  comedy  director,  leaves  the  Asso- 
ciated and  joins  the  Astor  company,  re- 
leasing through  Pathe.  With  him  goes 
Henry  Fishbeck,  camera  man. 

Edgar  Mels,  former  Lubin  press  agent, 
is  back  writing  newspaper  editorials  but 
says  he  will  get  in  the  film  business  once 
more. 


Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Los  Angeles,  Oct.  25. 

LOS  ANGELES  censors  have  issued 
notice  to  the  Los  Angeles  Mutual 
Film  Corporation  exchange,  advising  that 
a  majority  of  the  members  voted  that  the 
Richard  Bennett  "Damaged  Goods"  feature 
was  immoral  and  should  not  be  permitted 
to  be  shown. 

The  film  is  booked  for  the  weeks  of  Oc- 
tober 25  and  November  1  at  the  Superba 
theatre,  520  South  Broadway,  Los  Angeles, 
and  all  efforts  to  induce  the  censors  to 
change  their  minds  have  proven  fruitless 
and  they  advise  the  film  exchange  that  the 
film  will  be  confiscated  if  any  attempt  is 
made  to  show  it. 

An  effort  has  been  made  to  sidetrack  the 
ruling  of  the  censors  by  inducing  Mayor 
Charles   Sebastian  to  overrule  the  board. 


CHARLES  FRANCE,  admittedly  an  un- 
usually capable  comedy  producer,  has 
been  engaged  by  Vogue  Film,  Inc.,  to  di- 
rect its  first  company. 

The  studio  on  South  Pasadena  boulevard 
in  Los  Angeles,  formerly  used  by  Lubin, 
will  house  the  activities  of  Producer  France 
and  his  comedians.  Mr.  France  was  born 
into  comedy.  He  made  his  first  stage  ap- 
pearance at  an  early  age  and  has  been 
seen  in  everything  with  a  touch  of  fun  in 
it,  from  Shakespeare  to  vaudeville  and  back 
again.  As  head  of  the  comedy  producing 
staff  of  the  Edison  studios,  he  established 
an  enviable  record. 


but  notwithstanding  his  very  friendly  feel- 
ing toward  the  film  people  in  Los  Angeles, 
he  has  advised  that  the  censor  board's  j.uris- 
diction  is  above  his  official  power  to  change. 

The  management  of  the  Superba  theatre 
state  definitely  that  the  film  will  be  shown 
Monday  notwithstanding  the  ruling,  and 
they  feel  positive  that  court  action  will  re- 
sult in  a  victory  over  the  censor  board.  Lo- 
cal newspaper  critics  have  all  viewed  the 
film,  and  their  reviews  have  been  very  fa- 
vorable, all  of  which  tends  to  influence  the 
general  public  against  the  censors. 

In  the  past  exhibitors  have  all  been  suc- 
cessful in  securing  injunctions  preventing 
the  censors  and  police  department  from  in- 
terfering with  the  showing  of  pictures  con- 
demned b}-  the  board,  and  everj^  effort  will 
be  made  to  secure  such  an  injunction  in  this 
instance.  J.  C.  Jessen. 


Recently  he  has  been  directing  Eddie 
Foy  at  the  Keystone  studios. 

"The  old  motto  of  'laughs  for  laughs' 
sake'  has  failed  as  a  comedy  guide,"  Pro- 
ducer France  recently  commented.  "The 
public  is  intelligent  and  will  not  laugh  just 
because  a  director  of  comedy  thinks  they 
should,  unless  there  is  a  legitimate  reason. 
Comedy  production  is  an  art  in  itself. 
Fun  is  much  more  diflScult  to  'register'  on 
the  screen  than  it  is  on  the  speaking  stage." 

There  is  much  speculation  as  to  the  per- 
sonnel of  the  comedians,  and  announcement 
is  expected  shortly  from  Producer  Fjance. 
Mutual  will  release  \^ogue  comedies. 


France  Is  with  Vogue  for  Comedies  Through  Mutual 

Producer,  Who  Recently  Directed  Eddie  Foy  and  Has  Been  in  Everything  with  a  Touch  of 
Fun  in  It  From  Shakespeare  to  Vaudeville,  Is  Selecting  Companv 


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75 


Vim   Comedies  From  Melies  for  General  Release 

New  Brand  of  Fun-making  Subjects  Are  One  Reelers,  Issued  Every  Friday,  Featuring  Bobbie  Burns,  Who  Made 
His  Debut  as  an  Acrobatic  Comedian  in  Vaudeville;  Walt  Stull,  Who  Began  His  Theatrical  Career  in  Stock 
in  Philadelphia,  and  Are  Directed  by  Louis  Burstein,  Maker  of  Wizard  Comedies 


ANEW  comedy  on  the  program  of  the 
General  Film  Company  is  a  one-reel 
Vim,  every  Friday.  This  announce- 
ment has  been  received  with  more  than 
ordinary  interest  in  the  world  of  pictures 
because  a  new  brand  of  film  on  the  Gen- 
eral Film  program  is  by  no  means  a  fre- 
quent occurrence. 

The  Melies  Manufacturing  Company, 
for  whom  the  Vim  pictures  are  being  pro- 
duced,  have    secured   Louis    Burstein  as 


as  an  acrobatic  comedian  in  vaudeville. 
Then  he  played  for  three  seasons  in  the 
original  "Babes  in  Toyland"  company  and 
later  accepted  an  engagement  in  the  "Wiz- 
ard of  Oz"  company.  Burns  finally  turned 
his  talents  to  the  field  of  moving  pictures, 
appearing  first  with  Selig  and  later  with 
Lubin. 

It  was  while  there  that  he  first  met 
"Walt"  Stull.  The  latter  had  begun  his 
theatrical  career  in  stock,  starting  in  1894 


and  ready.  "The  Midnight  Prowlers"  is 
the  title  of  the  first  release.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jabbs  have  been  frightened  by  the  report 
of  burglars  in  the  neighborhood  and,  un- 
known to  each  other,  each  has  hired  a 
detective.  The  release  following  ''The  Mid- 
night Prowlers"  is  entitled  "A  Pair  of 
Birds,"  and  deals  with  Pokes  and  Runt, 
who  are  in  jail.  Though  they  escape  from 
prison,  after  many  mishaps,  they  are  finally 
glad  to  surrender  to  the  guards. 


DIRECTORS,  STARS  AND  SCENES  OF  THE  NEW  "VIM"  COMEDIES  TO  BE  RELEASED  BY  MELIES 


director-general.  It  was  Burstein  who 
helped  in  the  formation  of  the  New  York 
Motion  Picture  Company  with  Adam  Kes- 
sel,  Jr.,  and  Charles  C.  Baumann.  Until 
disposing  of  his  interests  in  that  company, 
Mr.  Burstein  was  quarter  owner,  secretary 
and  vice-president. 

With  the  Reliance  Company  Mr.  Burstein. 
once  more  was  organizing  producer  and 
during  the  early  days  of  Reliance  produc- 
tions he  was  in  full  charge. 

Popularity  of  Burstein's  Comedies 

The  popularity  gained  by  Wizard  come- 
dies released  through  the  World  Film  Cor- 
poration can  also  be  directly  attributed  to 
Mr.  Burstein. 

■'For  years  I  was  baffled  by  the  problems 
of  how  to  produce  good  comedies,"  de- 
clares Mr.  Burstein,  ''for  producing  good 
comedies  is  a  problem.  Vim  Comedies 
are  the  result  of  all  my  experiences  and 
studies. 

"First  of  all,  I  insist  that  every  one  of 
our  comedies  shall  have  a  plot.  This  can 
be  done  even  with  slapstick  comedies. 
Secondly,  our  comedies  must  be  free  from 
anything  suggesting  vulgarity.  The  third 
essential  demands  that  we  hire  only  the 
best  of  talent  and  spare  no  expense  in  the 
making  of  the  film.  Stinting  in  the  matter 
of  production  is  penny  wise  and  pound 
foolish." 

Careers  of  Burns  and  Stull 

The  personnel  of  the  cast  is  headed  by 
"Bobbie"  Burns  and  "Walt"  Stull,  who  will 
be  remembered  chiefly  for  their  work  as 
creators  of  the  "Pokes  and  Jabbs"  series. 

Bobbie  Burns  made  his  footlight  debut 


in  Philadelphia  with  the  Forepaugh  Stock 
Company.  He  left  the  Forepaugh  com- 
pany to  accept  an  engagement  as  leading 
stock  man  at  the  Girard  Avenue  theatre, 
Philadelphia.  There  he  remained  for  many 
years  until  attracted  by  an  offer  to  go  on 
the  road  as  the  co-star  of  Emma  Bunting, 
followed  by  several  seasons  as  the  juvenile 
in  a  dramatic  company  headed  by  Creston 
Clark. 

Finally  Stull  decided  to  go  in  business  for 
himself,  and  in  1907  formed  the  Walter 
H.  Stull  Stock  Company  which,  after  two 
successful  seasons  disbanded  when  Stull 
accepted  an  attractive  ocer  from  the  Lubin 
Company  and  transferred  his  efforts  from 
the  footlights  to  the  screen. 

Vim  Players  in  Florida 

Burns  and  Stull  were  next  author-direc- 
tors with  the  Reliance.  Here  they  met 
Mr.  Burstein.  The  three  put  their  heads 
together  and  decided  to  try  their  skill  at 
creating  a  new  line  of  comedy.  Vim 
Comedies  are  the  result. 

Ethel  Burton,  ingenue,  "Spook"  Hanson, 
formerly  a  clown  at  the  Hippodrome,  Edna 
Reynolds,  a  stock  favorite,  "Babe"  Hardy, 
a  three  hundred  and  fifty  pounder,  are 
leading  members  of  the  "Pokes  and  Jabbs" 
array.  Director-General  Burstein  is  at 
present  negotiating  with  several  other 
favorites. 

By  next  week  Burns  and  Stull  with  their 
company,  will  leave  New  York  for  Florida, 
which  will  be  the  winter  headquarters  of 
the  Vim  players. 

More  than  a  dozen  of  these  new  "Pokes 
and  Jabbs"   series  are  already  completed 


On  November  26,  "Pressing  Business," 
the  third  release  will  make  its  appearance. 
A  man  sends  his  one  and  only  suit  of 
clothes  to  the  tailor.  While  they  are  at 
the  tailor's  he  stays  in  bed,  but  the  tailor's 
shop  burns  down  while  his  one  suit  is 
there.  Comedj-  aplenty  is  furnished  in  his 
efforts  to  get  another  suit. 


PREPARE     FOR     RECEPTION  TO 
ROTHAPFEL  IN  NEW  ORLEANS 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News. 

New  Orleans,  La.,  Oct.  23. 

Elaborate  preparations  have  been  made 
for  the  reception  of  S.  L.  Rothapfel,  of 
New  York,  known  as  one  of  America's 
most  successful  exhibitors,  who  is  touring 
the  country  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Rothapfel-Mutual  Tour.  ISlr.  Rothapfel  was 
to  have  arrived  in  New  Orleans  Monday 
night  from  Atlanta,  but  Atlanta  has  been 
eliminated  from  his  itinerary,  which  will 
put  him  in  the  Crescent  City  Sunday  night, 
allowing  him  a  longer  stay  here. 

A  committee  of  local  exhibitors  and 
exchange  men,  headed  by  Ross  Harden- 
brook,  manager  of  the  New  Orleans  office 
of  Mutual,  will  meet  him  at  the  L.  and  N. 
station  and  escort  him  to  his  apartments 
at  Hotel  Grunewald. 

He  is  to  be  taken  over  the  city  in  an 
automobile  party.  Monday  night  an  elab- 
orate banquet  is  planned  for  the  midnight 
hour  in  Hotel  Grunewald.  Hundreds  of 
invitations  have  been  sent  out.  Through 
the  courtesy  of  Herman  Fichtenberg,  the 
orchestra  from  the  Alamo  theatre  will  phy 
at  the  banquet.  Professional  talent  from 
the  bills  at  local  theatres  will  entertain.  , 


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PAUL  GILMORE  IN  "ROSEMARY"  FOR 
QUALITY-METRO 

Paul  Gilmore,  the  dramatic  leading  man. 
who  recently  finished  work  in  "The  Peni- 
tentes"  for  the  Triangle,  has  joined  the 
Quality-Metro  forces  and  is  starred  with 
Marguerite  Snow  in  "Rosemary,"'  a  forth- 
coming production  on  the  regular  Metro 
program  Miss  Snow,  who  has  been 
starred  in  two  previous  Quality-AIetro  pro- 
ductions with  Francis  X.  Bushman,  "The 
Silent  Voice"  and  "The  Second  in  Com- 
mand," will  hereafter  have  the  stellar  roles 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.   No.  18. 


MARGUERITE   SNOW  AND   PAUL   GILMORE  IN 
"ROSEMARY" 

in  her  own  company.  After  compleung 
"Rosemary,"  which  is  a  five-part  picturiza- 
tion  of  the  famous  play  by  the  same  name, 
Miss  Snow,  accompanied  by  her  companj', 
will  come  East  to  make  Quality-Metr<j  fea- 
tures. 

While  Mr.  Gilmore  has  appeared  as  a 
star  on  Broadway  in  a  revival  of  "The 
Three  Musketeers,"  he  is  perhaps  best 
known  throughout  the  South  and  West, 
where  he  is  a  popular  favorite  and  matinee 
idol. 

Another  treat  in  store  for  motion  picture 
patrons  will  be  the  appearance  of  Frank 
Bacon,  the  famous  character  actor,  in  sup- 
port of  Miss  Snow  and  Mr.  Gilmore. 


Estabrook's  Way  to  Success  Indicated  by  Arrow  Film 

Company  Points  Out  Advisability  of  Leaving  Stage  to  March  Along  Road  of  Greater 
Popularity  Under  Screen  Banner,  and  He  Accepts  Stellar  Role  for  Paihe  Release 


TIOWARD  ESTABROOK  has  been 
signed  l)y  W.  E.  Shallenberger,  pres- 
ident of  the  Arrow  Film  Corporation,  of 
71  West  Twenty-third  street,  New  York, 
to  play  a  stellar  role  in  the  forthcoming 
Arrow-Pathe  releases.  Mr.  Shallenberger's 
arrangements  with  :\Ir.  Estabrook  include 
the  latter's  exclusive  services. 

For  this  reason  Mr.  Estabrook  has  re- 
signed from  the  cast  of  "Miss  Information," 
in  which  he  has  been  playing  opposite  Elsie 
Janis.  He  cannot  leave  the  cast  of  that 
popular  production  until  November  6.  But 
from  that  time  on  Mr.  Estabrook  will  not 
be  seen  in  the  flesh  except  as  he  goes  to 
and  from  his  home  to  the  .Vrrow  studios 
in  Yonkers. 

Mr.  Estabrook  showed  that  he  was  not 
afraid  of  really  hard  work,  even  if  he  is  a 
motion .  picture  star.  l-"or  the  last  two 
weeks,  while  engaged  in  eight  performances 
a  week  with  Miss  Janis,  he  nevertheless 
has  reported  daily  to  Director  Howell  Han- 
sel for  screen  work.  Except  on  Wednes- 
days and  Saturdays,  when  matinee  per- 
formances interfered,  he  has  put  in  ten 
hours  a  da\  before  the  camera. 


More  than  one  hundred  scenes  were 
filmed  by  Mr.  Hansel  last  week  in  the  Ar- 
row plant.  These  included  practically  all 
the  interiors  in  which  Mr.  Estabrook  ap- 
pears in  the  first  Arrow-Pathe  production, 
except  a  few  wherein  he  is  seen  with  a 
noted  woman  star  with  whom  he  will  be 
associated  in  these  new  Arrow  photoplay 
productions. 

Through  the  kindness  of  Samuel  Unter- 
rnyer,  the  famous  lawyer,  the  magnificent 
Untermyer  estate,  Greystone,  has  been  put 
at  Mr.  Hansel's  disposal  for  many  of  the 
exterior  scenes  in  this  first  Arrow  film. 
The  splendors  of  t||ie  Untermyer  estate  are 
known  to  all  motorists  who  travel  the  road 
to  Albany.  It  truly  is  a  place  of  "magni- 
ficent distances." 

Within  the  next  fortnight  the  executive 
offices  of  the  Arrow  Film  Corporation  will 
be  moved  to  the  Yonkers  plant  at  120 
School  street.  .Mr.  Shallenberger,  because 
of  his  extensive  motion  picture  interests, 
will  maintain  an  office  for  himself  down- 
town, but  the  Arrow  office  and  stadio 
work  will  be  done  in  Yonkers  after  No- 
vember 8. 


Lasky  Scholarship  for  College  Scenario  Course 

Trip  to  Coast  and  Bark  and  Liberal  Compensation  Awaits  Undergraduate  Writing  Best 
Script  in  Deparlment  Just  Added  to  Curriculum  of  Columbia  University 


TO  further  encourage  the  study  of  the 
art  of  photo-dramatics  among  the 
students  of  Columbia  University,  which  an- 
nounces that  it  has  just  opened  a  special 
course  of  lectureship  in  motion  pictures 
and  their  making,  the  Lasky  Feature  Play 
company,  through  its  executive  head,  Sam- 
uel Goldfish,  has  offered  a  scholarship  to  the 
uni\-ersity. 

It  has  been  accepted  by  Victor  O.  T^ree- 
burg,  professor  in  charge  of  the  new  de- 
partment, and  the  student  who.  in  the  opin- 
ion of  William  C.  DeMille.  chief  of  the 
Lasky  scenario  staff,  writes  the  best  origi- 
nal photoplay  during  the  college  term,  will 
receive,  all  expenses  paid,  a  trip  from  New 
York  to  the  Lasky  studios  at  Hollywood, 
Cal.,  and  return. 


Fine  Arts  Studio  a  Marriage  Atelier  for  Dorothy  Gish 

Actress  Will  Be  Joined  in  ^Wedlock"   (Only  As  Part  of  Day's  Camera-Facing  in  the 
Picture  Workshop  ),  with  Owen  Moore,  Husband  of  Mary  Pickford 

of  the  naval  reserves.  In  many  of  the 
scenes  J.  H.  Hogan,  well-known  aviator, 
soared  over  the  "battle  fields." 

Elliott  Dexter,  recently  with  Nance 
O'Neil  in  '"The  Lily,"  Marie  Doro  in  "Di- 
plomacy" and  other  well  known  stage  suc- 
cesses, has  been  cast  b\-  Manager  of  Fro- 
duction  Frank  E.  Woods,  of  the  Fine  Arts 
Films  studio,  to  play  opposite  Lillian  Gish 
in  her  next  subject,  which  will  be  of  the 
nature  of  a  costume  play. 

The  time  of  this  is  in  the  early  part  of 
the  eighteenth  century,  and  the  opening 
and  closing  scenes  are  laid  in  Paris.  Other 
members  of  this  cast  will  be  Olga  Grey, 
the  Hungarian  actress:  Ray  Wdls,  stock 
lead;  A.  D.  Sears,  and  Howard  Gave. 

Now  comes  the  announcement  that 
Dorothy  Gish  is  soon  to  be  wedded.  The 
ceremony  will  be  performed  before  the 
camera,  and  the  man  in  the  case  will  be 
Owen  Moore,  husband  of  Mary  Pickford. 
The  minister  will  not  be  an  official,  and  the 
event  will  not  be  celebrated  as  a  reality. 
This  will  be  Miss  Gish's  first  wedding  since 
she  made  her  debut  in  films,  five  years  ago. 

The  Fine  Arts  Films  Company  has  pur- 
chased motion  picture  rights  on  the  stage 
play  "Jim  Bludso."  which  was  an  adapta- 
tion from  the  John  Hay  poem. 

J.  C.  Jessex. 


Special  to  Motion  Pictuhe  News 

Los  Angeles,  Oct.  23 
'T'HE  Jane  Grey  Fine  Arts  Films  Com- 
A  pany,  filming  "IMother  of  Seven,"  un- 
der the  direction  of  C.  .\.  and  S.  M,  An- 
derson, are  this  week  spending  several  days 
at  Sunland.  Cal..  where  an  entire  Mexican 
village  has  been  built  and  will  be  used  in 
battle  scenes. 

A  special  train  carried  five  hundred  or 
more  members  of  the  United  States  m;ilitia 
and  navy  from  San  Diego  to  Santa  Ann, 
this  week,  where  for  three  days  the  boys 
of  Uncle  Sam  took  part  in  battle  scenes  for 
the  coming  Triangle  offering,  "The  Scarlet 
Band."  These  scenes  were  made  under  die 
direction  of  William  Christy  Cabanne,  as- 
sisted by  Lieutenant  Muirhead  and  officers 


If  suitable  for  commercial  production  the 
play  will  be  produced  by  Lasky  with  a  star 
in  the  leading  role  and  released  through 
Paramount  Pictures  Corporation.  Equita- 
ble compensation  will  be  made  to  the  au- 
thor. 

The  decision  of  Columbia  University  to 
start  a  photo-dramatic  department  under 
the  direction  of  Professor  Freeburg  is  of 
great  interest  to  the  industry.  Through 
the  efforts  of  Professor  George  Pierce 
Baker,  of  Harvard,  many  talented  young 
dramatists,  including  Edward  Sheldon, 
Percy  Mackaye,  Frederick  Ballard  and 
others,  have  been  trained  to  write  for  the 
legitimate  field.  Mr.  Goldfish  in  his  letter 
says  that  the  photoplay  producers  of  the 
future  will  look  to  the  colleges  for  material. 


SELIG  BABY  IN  ONE  REEL  HEART 
INTEREST  STORY 

Jean  Fraser.  the  t\vo-year-old  Selig  baby, 
who  scores  in  the  Selig  Red  Seal  Play, 
"Sweet  Al3-ssum,"  released  through  V-L- 
S-E  on  November  15.  has  been  working 
recently  for  the  first  time  under  Thomas 
Santschi's  direction,  in  a  one-reel  heart  in- 
terest storv,  "Orders." 


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Realism  for  a  Lubin  from  Actual  Battlefield  Photos 

Fifteen  Replica  Scenes  from  Pictures  Taken  with  a  Still  Camera  by  Farnham  While  at  the 
Front  in  France,  Give  "The  Rights  of  Man"  Vivid  "War  Atmosphere 


JOE  FARNHAM'S  PHOTOGRAPH  OF  A  BATTLEFIELD  IN  EUROPE  AND  THE  LUBIN  REPRODUCTION 
IN  •  THE  RIGHTS  OF  MAN'— WHICH  IS  THE  ORIGINAL! 


FORREST,  PHILADELPHIA,  EXTENDS 
•NATION"  RUN 

Philadelphia,  Oct.  26. 

So  large  has  been  the  demand  for  seats 
for  "The  Birth  of  a  Nation"  that  the  For- 
rest theatre  has  extended  its  original  run 
of  six  weeks.  This  photo  drama  has  broken 
all  records  at  the  Forrest. 

The  activities  of  the  colored  people,  which 
caused  some  annoyance  in  the  first  few 
weeks  of  the  production,  have  ceased,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  spasmodic  resolu- 
tions every  little  while. 

No  further  breaches  of  the  peace  have 
occurred  and  none  are  anticipated  by  the 
management.  This  week  350  members  of 
the  City  Club,  a  civic  organization  of  Phila- 
delphia, attended  in  a  body. 

Dr.  Daniel  M.  Hoyt  and  Prof.  William 
II.  Meams,  chairman  of  the  Drama  League, 
attended  the  performance  and  expressed 
themselves  as  highly  pleased  with  the 
picture. 


GEORGE  KLEINE  WILL  MOVE  SOON  TO 
UPTOWN  STUDIO 

George  Kleine's  executive  headquarters 
will  remove  to  the  big  uptown  studio  at 
805  to  813  East  175th  street.  New  York, 
on  or  about  November  1.  The  ofifice  at 
11  East  14th  street  will  be  closed,  all  de- 
partments, including  the  auditing,  adver- 
tising and  scenario,  removing  to  the  new 
address. 


SELIG  REGISTERS  RED  SEAL  AS  A 
TRADEMARK 

The  application  of  the  Selig  Polyscope 
Company  for  the  registration  of  the  Red 
Seal  trademark  for  the  Selig  feature  pla}s 
released  through  V-I^S-E  has  been  granted 
by  the  United  States  patent  office. 


WHEN  some  few  weeks  ago  Jack  Pratt, 
Lubin  director,  began  the  production 
of  Louis  Reeves  Harrison's  five-reel  Lubin 
^^-L-S-E  release,  "The  Rights  of  Man,"  he 
was  confronted  with  the  usual  amount  of 
problems  which  are  thrust  upon  the  di- 
rector, but  in  this  particular  case,  it  seemed 
that  just  a  wee  bit  more  than  the  average 
attention  was  to  be  necessary  to  build  the 
proper  sets  and  select  the  locations  for  the 
staging  of  the  replica  scenes  of  the  battle- 
fields in  Europe. 

Accordingly,  Director  Pratt  and  Art  Di- 
rector Farnham  of  the  Lubin  Company  be- 
gan to  get  the  proper  information.  It  was 
hard  to  secure  the  necessary  data  and  the 
search  had  about  been  given  up,  when  it 
was  recalled  that  Joe  Farnham,  now  of  the 
Lubin  company,  had  been  in  France  for 
four  months  and  knew  the  real  conditions. 
Mr.  Pratt  found,  not  only  the  knowledge 


desired  but  in  addition  a  collection  of  sev- 
enteen hundred  still  pictures,  which  Farn- 
ham had  taken  himself  and  which  gave 
vivid  views  of  just  what  he  sought — the 
graves,  the  wounded  and  dying  and  the 
dead  on  the  fields  of  battle  and  shell  de- 
stroyed buildings. 

Perhaps  foremost  among  the  many  ex- 
traordinary replicas  of  the  war  zone,  is  the 
one  showing  the  grave  of  three  hundred 
French  and  German  soldiers  in  the  middle 
of  a  plowed  field  at  Mondemont,  France. 
It  was  at  this  position  that  the  Chateau 
changed  hands  four  times,  twice  occupied 
by  the  Germans  and  twice  by  the  French 
in  what  is  perhaps  written  in  history  as 
one  of  the  most  fierce  hand-to-hand  en- 
counters of  the  war. 

Director  Pratt  has  reproduced  this  scene 
in  a  most  remarkable  way,  as  is  shown  by 
comparison  of  the  photographs,  one  at 
Betzwood,  Pa.,  and  the  other  at  Monde- 
mont, France. 

In  all,  through  the  five  reels  there  are 
fifteen  reproductions  of  this  kind. 


CHICAGO  REEL  FELLOWS  HOLD 
DINNER 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Chicago,  Oct.  25. 

The  Reel  Fellows  met  for  their  October 
dinner  in  the  balcony  of  the  Movie  Inn 
last  Wednesday.  After  a  cracking  good 
dinner  and  its  attendant  gossip  were  dis- 
posed of,  the  serious  business  of  the  eve- 
ning was  discussed. 

It  was  announced  that  the  November 
meeting  of  the  club  would  take  place  in  the 
new  rooms  of  the  organization,  situated 
on  the  floor  above  the  Movie  Inn. 

Donald  J.  Bell  donated  fifty  dollars 
toward  new  clubroom  furniture,  and  E.  A. 
Hamburg  is  to  give  the  pictures  and  wall 
decorations.  A  committee  of  three  was  ap- 
pointed to  counsel  with  the  management 
of  the  inn  regarding  decorations. 

M.  G.  Watkins  was  elected  secretary  to 
fill  the  place  of  W.  D.  Hildreth,  resigned. 


GEORGE  SPINK  JOINS  LUBIN'S  SCRIPT 
STAFF 

George  Spink,  composer  of  many  suc- 
cessful vaudeville  acts,  among  which  are 
"The  Country  Club"  and  "At  the  Waldorf," 
has  been  added  to  the  scenario  department 
at  Lubin's.  Mr.  Spink  will  write  both 
comedy,  and  dramatic  subjects. 


DINNER  GIVEN  IN  HONOR  OF  MME.  PAVLOWA  AT  LOS  ANGELES  BY  LOIS  WEBER 


Among  those  present  were  Anna  Pavlowa,  Lois  Weber,  Henry  McRae.  Henrietta  Grossman,  Phillips  Smalley, 
Al  E.  Christie,  Otis  Turner,  Douglas  Gerrard,  Mack  Sennett.  M.  Clustine,  Fred  Mace,  Myrtle  Stedman. 
Mrs.  Turner,  H,  P.  Caulfield,  Ella  O'Neill,  Mrs.  Caulfield.  Maude  George,  Herbert  Rawlinson,  Grace  Kingsley, 
Marguerite  Loveridge,  Wm.  C.  Dowlan,  Marshal  Stedman,  Adele  Farrington,  Edna  Maison,  Cleo  Madison, 
Lynn  Reynolds,  Joseph  De  Grasse,  Mrs.  De  Grasse,  Mrs.  Dowlan.  Robert  Ross,  Harry  Hamra,  Mrs.  Hamm, 
Mrs.  Rawlinson.  Stella  Razeto,  E.  J.  Le  Saint.  Mrs.  Kerrigan,  Richard  Willis,  Herbert  Standing,  Mrs. 
Standing.  M.  G.  Jonas,  Mrs.  Jonas,  Frank  Ormston,  Hobart  Henley,  Horace  Davey,  Mina  Cunard,  William 
Worthington,  J.  P.  McGowan,  Marie  Walcamp,  Arthur  Forde,  Frank  Elliott,  Wallace  Kerrigan,  Helen 
Holmes,  Ruth  Roland,  Lee  Moran  and  Ethel  Weber. 


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Vol.  12.    No.  18. 


LOUISE  RUTTER,  SUPPORTING  DALY, 
IS  BALTIMORE  GIRL 

Louise  Rutter,  who  is  supporting  Arnold 
Daly  in  Pathes  Ashton-Kirk  series,  was 
born  in  Baltimore.  Her  first  engagement 
was  in  "The  Bonnie  Brier  Bush,"  followed 
by  others  in  "The  College  Widow,"  "The 
Heir  to  the  Hoorah,"  "The  Man  of  the 
Hour,"  and  "The  Devil,"  with  George 
Arliss 

She  first  appeared  with  Mr.  Daly  in  "The 
Sins  of  Society"  and  "Know  Thyself."  An 
engagement  with  Ethel  Barrymore  followed 
and  then  one  with  William  Gillette.  Recent 
plays  in  which  she  has  appeared  are  "Pass- 
ers By"  and  "A  Rich  Man's  Son,"  in  which 
she  acquitted  herself  well. 

Miss  Rutter  is  the  leading  woman  in  the 
Ashton-Kirk  pictures,  which  have  elicited 
much  favorable  comment  from  the  re- 
viewers. 


New  Talent  Floats  on  Prosperity  Tide  to  Horsley 


Jefferson  Drifts  to  Scenario  Department  with  a  Sea  of  Photoplays  to  His  Credit,  and 
Sprenger  Sails  under  Flapping  Sheets  of  Publicity 

LV.  JEFFERSON,  who  since  last  April 
•  has  written  and  sold  nearly  one  hun- 
dred photoplays,  has  been  added  to  David 
Horsley's  scenario  staff,  which  also  includes 
Charles    Mortimer    Peck    and  Theodora 


Harris.  Among  Mr.  Jefferson's  plays 
have  been  produced  are  "Both  Sides  of 
Life,"  "The  Grail,"  "The  College  Orphan," 
"The  Fadist,"  featuring  Henrietta  Cross- 
man,"  "A  Splendid  Crook,"  with  Henry  B. 
Warner ;  "Cupid's  Thumb  Print,"  "The 
Temptation  of  Adam,"  arid  many  others  of 
equal  note. 

For  Mr.  Horsley  he  is  responsible  for  the 
scenario  in  which  Irving  Cummings  makes 
his  first  appearance  as  a  David  Horsley 
star.    He  is  also  at  work  writing  the  plots 


Public  Demands  More  Helen  Series  from  Universal 

Miss  Holmes  Is  Called  from  "Graft"  Rehearsals  to  Continue  in  Old  Lead,  and  Jane  Novak 
Is  Selected  to  Take  Her  Place  in  New  Serial 

Brent''  and  "The  Kiss  of  Dishonor,"  Jane 
Novak  was  chosen  for  the  position. 

Jane  Novak  was  at  the  time  it  was  de- 
cided to  cast  her  in  "Graft"  playing  leads 
in  the  Bosworth  Broadway  Universal 
F"eatures. 

Miss  Novak  has  been  in  pictures  but  a 
comparatively  short  time,  but  two  years 
and  a  half,  having  obtained  her  first  train- 
ing with  the  Kalem  companj-,  shortly  after- 
wards oging  to  the  Vitagraph  company, 
where  she  appeared  in  many  of  the  star 
productions  of  that  company. 

While  traveling  through  California  Miss 
Novak  visited  L'niversal  City,  and  was  of- 
fered a  contract  with  the  Universal,  which 
she  readily  accepted.  Prior  to  her  appear- 
ance before  the  camera.  Miss  Novak  was 
on  the  legitimate  stage,  having  important 
roles  in  "The  Girl  from  Rector's"  and 
"Polly  of  the  Follies  " 

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So  insistent  was  the  demand  for  the  con- 
tinuation of  the  Helen  series  in  which 
Helen  Holmes  has  been  playing  the  leads, 
that  the  Universal  Film  Manufacturing 
Company  has  decided  to  continue  featur- 
ing her  in  the  series. 

Director-General  McRae  at  Universal 
City  has  already  begun  rehearsals  of  the 
first  instalment  of  "Graft,"  in  which  Ho- 


JANE  NOVAK 

bert  Henley  and  Miss  Holmes  were  to  be 
starred,  and  the  receipt  by  him  of  a  tele- 
gram from  President  Carl  Laemmle  to 
continue  the  Helen  Holmes  series  was  re- 
ceived with  disappointment  as  it  was 
planned  to  start  taking  the  pictures  the  fol- 
lowing day. 

Telegrams  went  back  and  forth  for  a 
day  or  so,  but  all  to  no  avail.  The  Helen 
Holmes  series  must  be  continued,  and 
there  was  naught  left  for  the  Universal 
City  directors  to  do  but  to  select  a  new 
leading  lady,  and  when  it  is  considered 
that  there  are  over  a  hundred  star  actresses 
at  the  Universal  coast  studios,  this  was  no 
small  job. 

A  list  of  eligible  stars  was  made  up,  and 
the  ability  of  the  individual  actresses  con- 
sidered thoroughly.  .After  considerable 
dallying  the  directors  came  to  the  conclu- 
sion that  on  account  of  her  remarkable 
performance  in  "The  Scarlet  Sin."  "The 
Little    Brother   of   the  Rich,"  "Big  Bill 


and  business  for  the  "Stanley's  Adventures 
in  Africa"  series,  which  is  now  being  car- 
ried on  in  the  Centaur  features  under  the 
direction  of  Frank  Montgomery. 

David  Horsley  has  appointed  Bert  Von 
Klei  n  as  his  business  manager  of  his 
studios  in  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  Von  Klein 
has  been  with  Mr.  Horsley  since  July  as 
assistant  to  Director  Frank  E.  Montgomery 
in  the  production  of  "The  Rajah's  Sacri- 


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I     COMEDY  FAVORITE.  NOW  A  MEMBER  OF  1 

I  THE  GAUMONT  FORCES  | 

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IRVING  CUMMINGS 

fice,"  "The  Woman,  the  Lion  and  the 
Man,"  and  the  "Stanley's  Adventures  in 
-Africa"  series,  the  latter  now  being  re- 
leased under  the  Centaur  Feature  brand 
name. 

Previous  to  that  time  he  had  fourteen 
years  of  legitimate  stage  work,  and  since 
1912  he  has  been  in  the  motion  picture 
business  as  director  or  assistant  director. 
Mr.  Von  Klein  assumed  charged  of  his  new 
duties  this  week. 

After  being  out  of  the  cast  of  "The  Blood 
of  Our  Brothers,"  Margaret  Gibson  makes 
her  reappearance  as  a  David  Horsley 
player  in  "Could  a  Man  Do  More?"  the 
three-reel  Centaur  star  feature  with  Crane 
Wilbur  which  will  be  released  on  the  Mu- 
tual program,  November  24.  Miss  Gib- 
son's first  appearance  with  Mr.  Horsley 
was  in  "The  Protest,"  the  Centaur  star 
feature  release  for  September  29. 

In  "Could  a  Man  Do  More?"  which  is 
now  being  made  at  the  Horsley  studios  in 
Los  Angeles,  Miss  Gibson  has  one  of  the 
biggest  and  most  effective  parts.  Miss 
Gibson  before  joining  Mr.  Horsley  was 
with  the  New  York  Motion  Picture  Com- 
panj'.  One  of  her  excellent  characteriza- 
tions was  that  of  Amy  in  "The  Coward," 
in  which  she  supported  Frank  Keenan. 

C.  O.  Sprenger,  a  newspaper  man  who 
for  many  years  was  on  the  staff  of  the  Den- 
ver Times  and  the  Rocky  Mountains  News, 
and  who  for  the  past  five  years  has  been 
doing  general  publicity  work  and  adver- 
tisement writing  in  California,  has  been 
placed  in  charge  of  the  publicity  work  for 
the  David  Horsley  interests  in  Los  Angeles. 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


November  6,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


79 


GERDA  HOLMES  ANNOUNCES  HER 
ENGAGEMENT  BY  EQUITABLE 

Gerda  Holmes,  whose  work  with  Than- 
houser,  Essanay  and  other  feature  pro- 
ducers during  the  past  few  years  attracted 
the  attention  of  numerous  other  concerns 
of  equal  importance,  announces  through 
her  manager  that  she  has  contracted  to  ap- 
pear under  the  management  of  the  Equit- 
able Motion  Pictures  Corporation  and  that 


GEKDA  HOLMES 

within  the  next  two  weeks  she  will  leave 
the  plant  of  Essanay  for  New  York  to 
assume  her  new  duties. 

Miss  Holmes,  who  made  her  first  mark 
in  Klaw  and  Erlanger's  production  of  "The 
Round-Up,"  in  which  she  played  the  feat- 
ured feminine  role,  was  drafted  from  that 
production  by  the  film  field,  because  of  her 
work.  Her  appearance  in  films  was  the 
means  of  rapid  advancement.  Essanay  con- 
tracted with  her  for  appearance  with  the 
male  stars  on  their  roster. 


FIRST  DIRECTORS'  MEETING  OF  BOARD 
OF  TRADE  IN  "MUTUAL  WEEKLY," 
No.  42 

"Mutual  Weekly,"  No.  42,  released  Octo- 
ber 21,  contains  a  record  in  film  of  the 
first  directors'  meeting  of  the  newly  or- 
ganized Motion  Picture  Board  of  Trade  of 
America,  Inc.  The  picture,  as  taken  under 
the  direction  of  Pell  Mitchell,  the  Gaumont 
"Mutual  Weekly"  man,  includes  the  as- 
sembling of  the  clans  and  close-ups  of  the 
following  important  figures  in  the  indus- 
try: S.  L.  Rothapfel,  manager  of  the  Rialto 
theatre,  who  will  soon  leave  on  a  national 
tour  for  the  Mutual  to  consult  with  Mutual 
exhibitors  on  ways  and  means  of  increas- 
ing and  improving  business;  Max  Stern, 
manager  of  the  Majestic  theatre,  Colum- 
bus, O. ;  R.  H.  Cochrane,  vice-president, 
Universal  Film  Manufacturing  Company ; 
J.  E.  Brulatour,  Eastman  Kodak  Company ; 
Nicholas  Power,  president  Nicholas  Power 
Company;  John  R.  Freuler,  president  Mu- 
tual Film  Corporation ;  W.  Stephen  Bush, 
of  the  Motion  Picture  World;  William  A. 
Johnston,  editor  Motion   Picture  News  ; 


Walter  W.  Irwin,  general  manager  Interna- 
tional Film  Service ;  Joseph  W.  Engel, 
treasurer  Metro  Pictures  Corporation. 

The  title  of  this  section  of  the  weekly 
gives  the  object  of  the  Board  of  Trade — 
"to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  industry  as 
a  whole,  and  to  protect  it  against  those 
who  would  illegally  or  unjustly  prey 
upon  it." 


NEW  YORKERS  CROWD  FOX  THEATRE 
TO  SEE  EDITH  ROBERTS 

The  William  Fox  Nemo  theatre,  at  One 
Hundred  and  Tenth  street  and  Broadway, 
New  York  City,  is  filled  to  capacity  every 
afternoon  and  every  night  under  the  ef- 
ficient management  of  Mr.  Al.  Ramer. 

Every  once  in  a  while  the  neighboring 
streets  are  blocked  with  a  throng  of  patrons 
who  seek  admission  to  witness  on  the 
screen  the  artistry  of  Edith  Roberts,  whose 
home  is  at  549  West  113th  street.    She  is 


EDITH  ROBERTS 


among  the  youngest  of  New  York's  moving 
picture  favorites.  Some  times  she  appears 
before  the  curtain  and  expresses  a  few 
amiabilities. 

Moving  picture  directors  unanimously 
agree  that  a  great  future  is  before  her. 


WOUNDED  SOLDIER  DIRECTS  COLOR- 
ING OF  PATHE  SUBJECT 

It  is  interesting  to  note  in  connection 
with  the  four  part  drama  in  Pathe  color, 
"The  Adventures  of  a  Madcap,"  that  its 
coloring  in  the  Pathe  factories  at  Vin- 
cennes,  France,  was  made  possible  by  a 
chance  happening.  The  man  in  charge  of 
the  coloring  department  was  fighting  at  the 
front  when  the  picture  arrived  from  Amer- 
ica. Shortly  afterwards  he  was  wounded 
in  the  leg,  and  while  convalescing  directed 
the  coloring  of  the  picture.  He  also 
trained  a  number  of  women  in  the  process 
so  that  now  the  work  is  being  as  well 
done  as  before  despite  the  lack  of  men. 

"The  Adventures  of  a  Madcap"  was 
produced  by  Balboa,  and  features  Jackie 
Saunders.  It  will  be  released  by  Pathe 
November  3. 


ESSANAY  DIRECTOR  FILMS  12  PLAYS 
IN  FIFTEEN  WEEKS 

Joseph  Byron  Totten,  an  Essanay  di- 
rector at  the  head  of  an  Essanay  touring 
company,  has  returned  to  the  Chicago 
studios  after  a  fitfeen  weeks'  trip  through 
the  cast,  during  which  he  filmed  a  dozen 
photoplays,  three  of  which  he  wrote. 

Mr.  Totton  left  the  studio  last  July  with 
a  company  of  twenty  people,  going  di- 
rectly to  his  country  home  and  stock  farm 
at  Pendleton  Hill,  Conn.,  where  a  daylight 
studio  was  hastily  constructed.  Here  he 
took  "The  Village  Homestead,"  one  of  his 
own  scripts,  using  his  own  house  as  the 
homestead.  "The  Call  of  the  Sea"  and 
"The  Lighthouse  by  the  Sea,"  the  last 
picture  his  own,  were  taken  respectively  at 
Block  Island,  Rhode  Island,  and  at  New- 
port. "Hearts  and  Roses"  was  filmed  at 
Westerly,  R.  1. ;  "A  Mansion  of  Tragedy" 
was  taken  in  Boston,  and  "Boys  Will  Be 
Boys"  was  set,  staged  and  completed  in 
New  York  City.  Other  plays  were  taken 
in  various  places  along  the  Atlantic  coast. 

Mr.  Totten  came  to  Essanay  for  the  sec- 
ond time  a  year  ago,  leaving  David  Be- 
lasco,  on  whose  producing  staff  he  worked, 
and  dropping  the  production  of  "E.xperi- 


JOSEPH  BYRON  TOTTEN 

ence"  to  take  up  the  offer  made  him  by 
George  K.  Spoor,  president  of  the  com- 
pany. Seven  years  ago  he  was  with  the 
Essanay  forces,  leaving  to  take  up  Broad- 
way productions  with  Belasco.  Mr.  Tot- 
ten wrote  the  film  version  of  "The  Blind- 
ness of  Virtue." 


MINING  CAMP  LOCALE  FOR  2  REEL 
MUSTANG 

"Playing  for  High  Stakes,"  a  two  reel 
Mustang  drama  released  in  the  regular 
Mutual  program  is  a  story  of  a  mining  camp. 

Anna  Little,  Jack  Richardson,  Walter 
Spencer,  Mary  Gladding  and  Louise  Lester 
have  the  principal  parts. 


Table  of  cooitents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    No.  IX. 


Ohio's  Pro-Censor  Exhibitors  Ready  to  Cry  'Enough!' 


Instances  Cited  by  Max  Steam,  at  Columbus 
with  Harmful  Activities  of 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Columbus,  Ohio,  Oct.  24. 

THE  Ohio  branch  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors  League  of  America  assem- 
bled in  convention  for  a  special  session  at 
the  call  of  Max  Stearn,  president  of  the 
Ohio  branch,  No.  1,  who  received  numerous 
telegrams  requesting  that  the  convention  be 
called  for  the  purpose  of  protesting  against 
the  action  of  the  Ohio  Board  of  Censors  in 
rejecting  "Hypocrites"  and  "The  Birth  of 
a  Nation." 

Lem  S.  Miller  of  Cincinnati  was  made 
temporary  chairman  of  the  morning  ses- 
sion, which  opened  at  10  o'clock.  He  in- 
troduced Geo.  J.  Karb,  Mayor  of  Colum- 
bus, who  welcomed  the  exhibitors  and  said 
among  other  things  that  he  favored  a  na- 
tional board  of  censorship,  rather  than  a 
state  board  or  municipal  board. 

Max  Stearn,  president  of  the  league,  was 
next  introduced.  He  gave  a  resume  of  the 
work  done  by  the  league,  citing  the  number 
of  obno.xious  bills  introduced  in  the  last 
legislature  and  killed  through  the  efforts 
of  the  officers  of  the  Motion  Picture  Ex- 
hibitors League. 

He  said  that  he  was  of  the  opinion  that 
the  exhibitors  of  Ohio  were  ready  to  give 
up  censorship  when  a  substitute  that  would 
be  satisfactory  to  the  public  was  presented. 
He  said  also  that  he  hoped  that  the  ex- 
change man  and  the  manufacturer  w'ould 
help  to  solve  this  difficult  problem. 

At  the  afternoon  session  Charles  Will- 
iams, chairman  of  the  Ohio  board  of  cen- 
sors, Maud  Murray  Miller,  W.  R.  Wilson 
and  other  members  of  the  board  made  ad- 
dresses. Many  of  the  exhibitors  present 
had  seen  "Hypocrites"  and  were  of  the 
opinion  that  it  should  be  passed  by  the 
board. 

Those  who  had  seen  "The  Birth  of  a 
Nation"  felt  that  it  should  also  pass.  In 
the  evening  a  banquet  and  cabaret  enter- 
tainment was  given.  John  H.  Arnold, 
Lieutenant  Governor  of  Ohio,  was  the  guest 
of  honor.  In  his  speech  he  also  made  the 
statement  to  the  effect  that  he  was  against 
state  and  municipal  censorship  but  rather 
favored  a  national  board. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  exhibitors  who 
attended  the  convention  : 

W.  D.  Belknap,  Royal  theatre,  Columbus, 
Ohio :  Charles  Weigel.  Alhambra  theatre, 
146  West  Fifth  street,  Cincinnati.  Ohio ; 
Lem  S.  Miller,  Cincinnati,  Ohio ;  Leo  E. 
Dwyer,  Strand  theatre,  Columbus,  Ohio ; 
J.  A.  Maddox,  Majestic  theatre,  Columbus, 
Ohio ;  Edward  Kohl,  National  theatre,  7507 
Linwood  avenue,  Cleveland,  Ohio ;  B.  J. 
Gorey.  Wilmar  theatre,  Columbus,  Ohio ; 
O.  J.  Sybert.  Hippodrome  theatre.  Mari- 
etta, Ohio ;  C.  A.  Frant?:.  Strand  theatre, 
Cambridge,  Ohio;  J.  M.  Kaufman,  Gallipo- 
lis  theatre,  Gallipolis,  Ohio. 

Paul  Stuffer,  Majestic  theatre,  499-501 
East  Main  street;  Home  theatre,  1176  East 
Main  street,  Columbus,  Ohio;  Fred  M. 
Tynes,  Columbia  theatre,  Portsmouth, 
Ohio ;  Robert  J.  Harmon,  Exhibit  theatre, 
Columbus,  Ohio ;  C.  A.  Smith,  Star  theatre, 
Chillicothe,  Ohio :  E.  L.  Stanton,  2188  Sum- 
mit street,  Columbus,  Ohio :  C.  R.  Walcutt, 


Convention,  Prove  Existence  of  Real  Disgust 
Legalized  State  Censorship 

Northern  theatre,  Columbus,  Ohio;  Ed.  C. 
Paul,  Gus  Sun  Amusement  Co.,  Columbia 
theatre,  Alhambra  theatre,  Springfield, 
Ohio. 

John  H.  Broomhall,  Jefferson  theatre, 
Hamilton,  Ohio;  Will  C.  Bettis,  .Alhambra 
theatre,  Toledo,  Ohio;  Al.  Taylor,  Taylor 
theatre,  61  Martin  avenue,  Columbus,  (Jhio ; 
John  D.  Kessler,  Star  theatre,  Sandusky, 
Ohio;  W.  C.  Quimby,  Quimby  theatre, 
Zanesville,  Ohio ;  Edward  Neugebauer, 
Theatre  Victoria,  Cfilumbus,  Ohio;  Mr. 
Stcw^ard,  Alhambra  theatre,  2159  North 
High  street,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

J.  W.  Nichols,  Gem  theatre,  Somerset, 
Ohio;  S.  C.  Stancliffe,  Subway  theatre, 
Schiller  and  Parsons  avenues,  Columbus, 
Ohio;  F.  H.  Pfeiffer,  Northern  theatre,  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio;  D.  T.  Richards,  Bide-a-Wee 
theatre,  Columbus,  Ohio;  S.  V.  Dempsey, 
Crystal  theatre,  2573  North  High  street. 
Columbus,  Ohio;  Mr.  Sprague,  Olympia  and 
Majestic  theatres,  Bellaire,  Ohio;  T.  A. 
Rosevelt,  Superba  theatre,  Columbus,  Ohio. 


F.  L.  Fmmert.  The  Marvel,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio ;  A.  G.  Hettesheimer,  Orpheum  thea- 
tre, Cincinnati,  Ohio;  R.  C.  Fowler,  Fre- 
mont, Ohio;  J.  H.  Martin,  434  Fourth  ave- 
nue, Pitt.sburgh.  Pa.;  Al.  White,  Imperial 
theatre,  Zanesville,  Ohio;  Harry  W.  Kress, 
May's  opera  house,  Piqua.  Ohio;  F.  E. 
Wylic,  New  theatre.  Columbus,  Ohio. 

S.  W.  Reilly,  Champion  theatre,  1068  Liv- 
ingston avenue,  Columbus.  Ohio;  Fred  P. 
Dwyer,  Strand  theatre,  Columbus,  Ohio; 
Warner  W.  Miller,  White  Palace  theatre, 
Mt.  Vernon.  Ohio;  Will.  J.  Dusenberry, 
Grand  theatre.  Columbus,  Ohio;  Val.  Ray- 
burg,  19  South  Main  street.  Dayton,  Ohio; 
F.  D.  King,  Superba  theatre.  Delaware, 
Ohio. 

Otto  Luedeking,  Cincinnati.  Ohio;  P.  G 
Charos,  Coshocton,  Ohio;  W.  M.  Welsh, 
Schiller  theatre,  Columbus,  Ohio;  C.  R.  Hir- 
big,  Mystic  theatre,  Coshocton,  Ohio;  W. 
W.  Schull,  Pastime  theatre.  Martins  Ferry. 
Ohio;  Lew  Foster,  Grand  opera  house.  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio;  J.  .\.  Zinn,  Marietta,  Ohio; 
Max  Stearn,  Majestic  theatre,  Columbus, 
Ohio:  W.  R.  Wilson,  Columbus.  Ohio;  S. 
E.  Wall.  Plain  City,  Ohio,  and  C.  O.  Stein- 
metz,  Wooster,  Ohio. 


West  Coast  Players'  Club  Starts  with  50  Members 

Comedian  Mace  Successful  in  Serious  Plan  to  Get  Organization  Under  Way  and  Makes  Ar- 
rangements  to  Raise  Money  by  Benefit  for  Club  House  Furnishings 


Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Los  Angeles,  Oct.  23. 
AT  a  dinner  given  at  the  Hoffman  Cafe 
the  preliminary  steps  of  organizing  a 
club  composed  of  photoplayers  of  Los  An- 
geles were  taken  and  more  than  fifty  peti- 
tions for  charter  membership,  each  accom- 
panied with  the  first  month's  dues,  were 
filed  with  the  treasurer. 

This  dinner  was  called  by  Fred  Mace. 
Keystone  comedian,  who  was  the  organizer 
of  the  original  Los  Angeles  club  known  as 
Photoplayers,  Inc. 

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i     REPRESENTATIVE  OF  BOSW'ORTH,  INC.,  | 

1     AND  MRS.  PIERCE.  DURING  THEIR  RE-  | 

I  CENT  TRIP  TO  LOS  ANGELES  | 

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The  temporary  .officers  selected  were : 
Fred  Mace,  chairman ;  Dell  Henderson, 
vice-chairman  ;  Al.  Filson.  trea.surer ;  Clark 
Irvine,  secretary ;  Charles  Murray,  chair- 
man of  the  membership  committee,  and 
Fred  Kley,  chairman  of  the  house  com- 
mittee. The  other  members  of  the  member- 
ship committee  selected  were :  Fred  Kley. 
William  Wolbert,  Charles  Ray.  Jack  Pick- 
ford  and  Joseph  DeGrasse,  and  of  the  house 
committee :  T.  W.  Hass  and  J.  C.  Jessen. 

There  are  several  quarters  under  consid- 
eration as  a  home  for  the  new  organiza- 
tion, and  the  house  committee  will  make 
report  at  the  next  meeting,  w-hich  will  be 
held  Thursday  of  next  week.  .At  this  meet- 
ing definite  plans  will  be  decided  upon  and 
it  is  very  probable  that  a  downtown  loca- 
tion will  be  selected,  although  it  is  the  de- 
sire of  a  number  that  arrangements  be 
made  to  purchase  land  and  build  a  bunga- 
low home  for  the  organization. 

Plans  were  made  at  this  meeting  for  a 
big  benefit  to  be  given  by  the  photoplayers 
at  a  local  theatre  within  the  next  few  weeks 
for  the  purpose  of  raising  money  to  pur- 
chase furnishings  for  the  club  home  and 
place  the  organization  on  a  sound  financial 
basis. 

The  charter  members,  in  addition  to  the 
officers  and  committeemen  who  have  made 
application  for  charter  membership  are ; 

Jeane  Harez,  Nick  Coagley,  Chas.  Par- 
rott,  Harry  Wulze.  Hank  Mann.  Jos.  Sin- 
gleton, Charles  Fais.  Bobbie  Dunn,  Billie 
Jerome,  Chester  Conklin,  Guy  Woodward. 
Fred.  A.  Turner,  Harry  Gribbon,  Eddie 
Klein,  Chuck  Reisner.  Frederick  Palmer, 
Lewis  J.  Cody,  Vincent  Bryan.  Fred  Hearn. 
Frank  Hayes.  Fritz  Schade.  Hugh  Fay. 
Harry  McCoy.  Joe  Jackson,  Hampton  Del 
Ruth,  Harry  Williams,  Wm.  Lowry.  Bobbie 
Vernon,  Charles  Avery,  Jerry  Moulton  and 
Josh  Binney.  J.  C.  Jessen. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


81 


Broadway  Star  and  Screen  Favorite  in  "Comrade 
John"  for  Pathe  Gold  Rooster  Series 


SPERO  FILMS  FIRST  KUKU  COMEDY 
FOR  KRITERION  RELEASE 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Los  Angeles,  Oct.  25. 

The  filming  of  the  first  Kuku  comedy 
was  taken  up  by  the  M.  E.  Spero  Company 
during  the  past  week  at  the  old  Master- 
I)iece  studio,  which  has  been  leased.  The 
lirst  subject  to  be  made  is  entitled  "Sammy 
vs.  Cupid,"  in  which  Sammy  Burns  is  fea- 
tured with  Dot  Farley  playing  the  feminine 
lead.  G.  P.  Hamilton,  late  maker  of  come- 
dies for  the  United  Program,  is  in  charge 
oi  the  direction. 

Sammy  Burns  is  particularly  well  known 
to  patrons  of  vaudeville  houses,  having 
played  on  the  principal  circuits  of  America, 
England,  and  the  continent  for  the  past  ten 
years,  appearing  in  the  vaudeville  team  of 
Burns  and  Fulton.  Their  acts  were  played 
over  the  Orpheum  and  Keith  time,  where 
they  entertained  thousands.  Miss  Farley  is 
^■ery  well  and  favorably  known  in  screen 
circles. 


SAMMY  BURNS 


The  company  will  make  at  least  one 
single  reel  comedy  each  week,  and  will 
have  other  companies  at  work  in  the  near 
future.  It  is  to  be  decided  later  whether 
they  will  make  all  comedies,  or  comedy  and 
drama.  Their  subjects  will  be  release  on 
the  new  Kriterion  program. 


FITZMAURICE  USES  ELABORATE  SETS 
IN  "AT  BAY,"  PATHE  DRAMA 

George  Fitzmaurice,  who  is  producing 
George  Scarborough's  "At  Bay"  for  Pathe, 
has  been  making  use  of  some  elaborate  sets 
in  his  picture.  A  cabaret  scene  in  which 
were  a  large  number  of  persons  and  where 
an  unusually  deep  set  was  used 

Fitzmaurice's  cast,  by  the  way,  is  one  of 
the  highest  salaried,  which  has  ever  been 
used  in  a  picture.  Florence  Reed  is  his 
leading  woman,  and  she  is  supported  by 
Frank  Sheridan,  Charles  Waldron,  Lyster 
Chambers  and  De  Witt  Jennings,  not  one 
of  whom  but  is  a  real  Broadway  favorite. 

Excellent  progress  has  been  made  on  the 
picture  which  will  soon  be  completed  and 
placed  upon  the  Gold  Rooster  program. 


tipOMRADE  JOHN,"  the  Pathe  Gold 
Rooster  Play  for  release  October  29, 
features  William  Elliott,  one  of  Broadway's 
best-known  stars,  as  well  as  Ruth  Roland. 
This,  by  the  way,  is  Miss  Roland's  first  ap- 
pearance in  a  Gold  Rooster  Play. 


WILLIAM  ELLIOTT 


Mr.  Elliott  is  an  unusually  versatile  man, 
being  musician,  painter,  writer,  producing 
manager  and  above  all,  actor.    He  first  ap- 


((T'M  Glad  Aly  Boy  Grew  Up  to  Be  a 
A    Soldier,''  adapted  by  Gilson  Willets 
from  the  Feist  song  hit,  "I  Didn't  Raise 
My  Boy  To  Be  a  Soldier,'"  will  be  released 


THE  DEATH  FALL  OF  DON  JOSE  IN  WILLIAM 
FOX  S    'CARMEN,  '  WHICH  COST  THE  ACTOR  A 
BROKEN  LEG 


peared  before  the  public  as  a  boy  violinist 
and  later  was  with  a  number  of  stock  com- 
panies playing  juvenile  roles.  He  had 
hardly  attained  manhood  before  he  secured 
an  engagement  with  Herbert  Kelcey  and 
Effie  Shannon.  Later  he  was  with  Mary 
Sliaw  in  '"Ghosts,  '  and  then  with  Robert 
Hilliard.  He  considers  the  great  training 
of  his  career  to  have  been  obtained  when 
he  was  with  Richard  Mansfield  in  "The 
Merchant  of  Venice,"  "Beaucaire,"  "Beau 
Brumm.el,"  "Heidelberg. "  'The  Scarlet  Let- 
ter," and  "Richard  the  Third.'' 

For  some  time  he  was  associated  with 
David  Belasco  in  "The  Rcise  of  the 
Rancho,"  "The  Grand  Army  Man,"  and 
""The  Music  ^Master."  His  work  in  these 
productions  stamped  him  as  among  the 
greatest  of  the  young  actors  of  America. 

Following  his  marriage  to  the  younger 
daughter  of  David  Belasco.  Mr.  Elliott  de- 
termined to  devote  himself  u<  producing 
plays  instead  of  acting  them.  "The  Gov- 
ernor's Lad}-."  and  "The  Drums  of  Oude," 
were  two  successes  identified  with  his  name. 

Ruth  Roland  has  been  a  picture  "head- 
liner"  for  several  years.  Her  work  in  the 
big  Pathe  series  ""Who  Pays?"  was  every- 
where admired.  The  ability  she  displays  in 
this,  her  first  Gold  Rooster  Play,  shows  that 
she  is  easily  one  of  the  first  of  motion  pic- 
ture actresses. 

"Comrade  John""  is  from  the  book  by 
Samuel  Merwin  and  H.  K.  Webster,  and 
was  produced  by  Balboa. 


on  Monday,  December  13,  as  a  Selig  Red 
Seal  Play  in  four  acts. 

Harry  Mestayer.  the  stage  star,  will  play 
the  leading  role,  that  of  Jerry  Warrington, 
who  felt  duty  call  and  left  mother  and 
sweetheart  to  go  on  the  firing  line  in  de- 
fense of  his  countrj'.  Mr.  Mestayer  will 
he  supported  by  Eugenie  Besserer  and  a 
cast  of  Broadway  favorites. 

Gilson  Willets.  inspired  by  the  popular 
song,  has  written  a  preachment  on  the  hor- 
rors of  war  and  graphically  picturizes  the 
sacrifices  of  wives,  mothers  and  sweethearts 
when  Mars,  the  god  of  war,  holds  sway. 

"I'm  Glad  My  Boy  Grew  Up  to  Be  a 
Soldier"  will  be  released  through  V-L-S-E. 

A  special  musical  score  is  being  prepared 
by  a  composer  to  be  issued  simultaneously 
with  the  photoplay. 


STIRRING  STORY  OF  KENTUCKY  IN 
•BLOT  ON  THE  SHIELD ' 

On  a  proud  Kentucky  colonel's  insistence 
that  his  only  child — a  beautiful  young 
daughter — sacrifice  her  life,  if  necessary,  to 
uphold  the  honor  of  the  family,  is  founded 
the  story  of  '"The  Blot  on  the  Shield,"  a 
two  part  Flying  "A"'  drama  for  release  in 
the  regular  ^Mutual  Program. 

For  the  presentation  of  this  stirring  story 
of  Kentucky,  Virginia  Rich  was  assigned 
the  role  of  the  daughter  of  the  South,  sup- 
ported by  Dick  Le  Reno,  as  her  father  and 
Walter  Spencer  as  'William  Copeland."'  her 
sweetheart. 


Selig  to  Release  Four  Act  "Red  Seal"  Adapted  from 
Popular  Song  Through  V-L-S-E 


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82 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol  12.    No.  18. 


SELIG  TO  OFFER  DAVIS  SUBJECT 
WITH  BESSIE  EYTON 

Charles  Belmont  Davis  wrote  "The 
White  Light  of  Publicity,"  to  be  released 
as  a  Selig  drama  in  one  reel,  Saturday, 
November  13. 

It  deals  with  the  plot  of  an  actress,  a 
press  agent  and  a  newspaper  woman  to 
make  capital  of  a  wealthy  society  man. 
How  the  newspaper  woman  came  to  a 
realization  of  the  wrong  done,  and  how 
Cupid  had  his  innings,  embraces  an  inter- 
esting story.  Bessie  Eyton  plays  a  leading 
role. 


All  U.  S.  Locales  Reproduced  at  Rolfe-Metro  Studio 

Miniature  Sellings  of  Scenery  Characteristic  of  Various  Parts  of  the  Country  Will  Do  Away 
with  Painted  Back  Drops  for  Exteriors 


ANOTHER  PRINT  NEEDED  TO  MEET 
"BROKEN  COIN"  DEMAND 

Special  io  Motion  Picture  News. 

Los  Angeles,  Oct.  23. 
The  popularity  of  "The  Broken  Coin" 
serial  in  southern  California  territory  has 
caused  the  need  of  an  additional  print  for 
the  Los  Angeles  exchange.  Seventy-six 
houses  are  now  showing  this  serial,  and  it 
is  anticipated  by  the  additional  print  it  will 
be  necessary  to  add  fully  thirty-three  per 
cent,  more  business. 


THE  United  States  in  miniature,  an  inno- 
vation to  be  used  in  obtaining  scenic 
ef¥ects,  is  now  under  construction  at  the 
Rolfe-Metro  studio  in  West  Sixty-first 
street,  New  York.  When  completed  it  will 
be  possible  to  photograph  exteriors,  abso- 
lutely correct  in  topography  and  vegetation, 
of  any  locale  in  this  country. 

The  miniature  United  States  is  being 
built  on  a  platform  fourteen  feet  deep, 
which  will  eventually  extend  around  the 
walls  of  the  entire  mammoth  studio.  There 
are  mountains,  plains,  caves,  railroad  tun- 
nels, lakes,  rivers,  creeks,  bridges,  trees, 
ferns,  small  towns  and  even  some  of  the 
prominent  cities  of  the  United  States  will 
be  faithfully  reproduced. 

On  the  wall,  back  of  the  miniature  pano- 
rama, canvas  is  stretched  upon  which  is 
painted  an  appropriate  background  to  lend 
the  essential  distant  effect.  The  miniature 
is  to  be  permanent  and  is  being  installed  at 
a  great  expense. 


"JEANNE  DORE"  WILL  IMMORTALIZE  GREAT  ACTRESS 
OF  FRANCE  FOR  POSTERITY 


JEANUE  DOEE  (MME.  BERNHARDT)  SEES  THE  EXECUTION  OF  HER  SON  FROM  THE  WINDOW  OF 

HER  HOME 


ONE  of  the  big  productions  of  the  cur- 
rent screen  season  is  the  appearance 
of  Sarah  Bernhardt  in  the  picturization  of 
"Jeanne  Dore.'"  adapted  by  Mr.  Louis  Mer- 
canton  from  the  play  by  Tristan  Bernard, 
and  which  is  being  released  by  the  Uni- 
versal Film  Manufacturing  Company. 

This  picture  was  produced  under  the 
personal  direction  of  Mr.  Mercanton,  who 
was  responsible  for  the  two  other  pictures 
in  which  Madame  Bernhardt  has  appeared, 
"Queen  Elizabeth"  and  "Adrienne  Le  Couv- 
treur." 

One  of  the  attractions  of  the  new  film 
is  its  perpetuation  of  the  facial  expression 
of  this  famous  actress  of  the  present  age. 

"Jeanne  Dore"  was  the  play  in  which 
this  great  actress  was  appearing  at  the 
Sarah  Bernhardt  theatre,  in  Paris,  when 
she  was  compelled  to  undergo  her  recent 
operation. 

She  considers  this  story  her  favorite 
of  recent  years,  in  that  it  offers 
her  the  fullest  possible  scope  for  the  pro- 
jection of  her  own  individuality. 

The  play  is  a  typical  Bernhardt  story, 
the  kind  we  would  expect  to  see  her  in,  and 


offers  her  great  opportunities  for  the  won- 
derful portrayal  of  her  art.  It  was  given 
in  detail  in  a  recent  issue  of  Motion  Pic- 
ture News. 

Madame  Bernhardt  appears  in  over  a 
hundred  scenes  in  this  production.  She 
took  the  greatest  possible  interest  in  the 
details  of  the  scenes,  and  this  enthusiasm 
is  reflected  in  her  work  before  the  camera. 
Never,  it  is  asserted,  has  she  acted  more 
magnificently  than  in  "Jeanne  Dore."  This 
is  remarkable  when  it  is  taken  into  con- 
sideration that  the  picture  was  taken  since 
the  operation.  Owing  to  her  inability  to 
walk  with  her  artificial  leg,  all  the  scenes 
show  her  either  sitting  or  standing.  It  is 
the  first  production  in  which  she  has  been 
seen  since  her  operation ;  in  fact,  it  is  said 
that  she  went  direct  from  the  hospital  to 
the  film  studio. 

The  principal  artistes  who  appear  in 
"Jeanne  Dore"  were  with  her  in  the  origi- 
nal production  at  the  Sarah  Bernhardt  the- 
atre. Mile.  Seylor  again  assumes  the  role 
of  Mme.  Tissot,  Mile.  Costa  plays  the  part 
of  Louise,  and  M.  Raymond  Bernhard  also 
plays  his  old  part  of  Jacques  Dore. 


E.  J.  Shulter,  the  technical  director  at 
the  Rolfe-Metro  studio,  conceived  the  idea 
of  the  miniature  several  years  ago,  and  has 
been  working  it  out  ever  since.  He  says  it 
is  going  to  prove  invaluable  in  obtaining 
desired  effects  through  opened  doors  and 
windows,  showing  exterior  settings. 

Heretofore,  such  effects  have  been  made 
through  the  aid  of  painted  drops,  which  Mr. 
Shulter  says  no  longer  deceives  the  average 
motion  picture  patron.  It  will  also  be  pos- 
sible to  obtain  views  from  the  window  of 
a  train,  and  similar  effects,  without  going 
out  of  the  studio.  This  will  not  only  add 
to  the  artistic  value  of  Rolfe-Metro  pic- 
tures, but  will  prove  a  saving  in  the  cost  of 
production. 

At  the  New  York  City  end  of  the  min- 
iature the  principal  building  will  be  the 
Grand  Central  station.  Other  railroad  sta- 
tions in  Los  Angeles,  Denver,  New  Orleans 
and  other  cities,  will  be  reproduced.  There 
will  be  miniature  motor  boats,  steamboats 
and  yachts,  going  under  their  own  power, 
in  lakes,  rivers  and  bays.  It  will  be  pos- 
sible to  produce  snow,  rain  and  wind 
storms,  and  even  a  torpedo.  In  the  first 
section  of  the  miniature,  now  completed, 
approximately  two  hundred  miles  of  the 
country  is  shown.  There  is  a  practical, 
miniature  train,  one  of  the  few  imports  that 
has  reached  this  country  recently  from 
Germany,  that  traverses  through  the  coun- 
tryside, skirting  mountain  sides,  passing 
through  villages,  tunnels,  over  bridges  and 
around  seemingly  dangerous  curves.  It 
was  necessary  to  take  out  the  electric 
equipment  in  the  engine  and  install  steam, 
to  obtain  the  right  effect. 

Edgar  Jones,  the  director,  has  assisted 
Mr.  Shulter  in  constructing  the  miniature 
and  Mr.  Jones  used  a  few  experimental 
flashes  of  one  section  of  it  in  "The  Woman 
Pays,"  the  production  he  directed  in  which 
Valli  Valli  is  starred. 


LASKYS  "CARMEN"  IN  ST.  LOUIS  IN 
CHARGE  OF  A  WOMAN 

The  Princes  theatre.  Grand  and  Olive 
streets,  St.  Louis,  has  broken  all  records 
for  advance  sale  of  seats  for  the  Lasky 
production  of  "Carmen,"  with  Geraldine 
Farrar,  which  begins  an  engagement  at  the 
Princess  on  October  29. 

Hattie  B.  Gooding  is  in  charge  of  the 
feature,  which  is  her  first  venture  in  the 
photoplay  business,  as  she  has  confined  her 
activities  to  operatic  productions  that  come 
to  St.  Louis. 


"QUO  VADIS'  DOES  BIG  BUSINESS  IN 
HAMILTON,  CANADA 

George  Kleine's  "Quo  Vadis"  packed  the 
Hamilton,  Canada,  Grand  Opera  House 
for  three  days  last  week.  "Quo  Vadis" 
was  given  a  modest  billing  throughout  the 
city,  and  played  October  14,  15  and  16  to 
almost  $1,000  at  popular  admission  prices. 

"Quo  Vadis"  was  released  in  the  spring 
of  1913,  and  has  played  Hamilton  return 
dates,  as  well  as  every  other  city  of  its 
size,  in  both  the  United  States  and  Canada. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


83 


JAMES  J.  CORBETT,  RAVER  STAR,  HAS 
HAD  VARIED  CAREER 

No  performer  on  the  stage  has  had  a 
more  interesting  career  than  James  J. 
Corbett,  who  appears  in  the  leading  role  of 
"Kid  Garvey,"  the  gentleman  pugilist  in 
Augustus  Thomas'  famous  play,  "The 
Other  Girl,"  which  is  the  inaugural  pro- 
duction of  the  Raver  Film  Corporation. 

It  was  William  A.  Brady  who  discovered 
the  theatrical  talent  of  Mr.  Corbett,  fol- 
lowmg  closely  upon  his  being  crowned 
heavyweight  champion  of  the  world.  His 
first  stage  appearance  was  in  the  title  role 
of  "Gentleman  Jack,"  followed  by  "The 
Naval  Cadet,"  "The  Adventurer"  and 
"Around  New  York  in  Eighty  JNlinutes,"  in 
all  of  which  vehicles  Corbett  was  starred. 
Next  the  late  Henry  B.  Harris  affixed  the 
star's  signature  to  a  contract  which  gave 
him  the  title  role  in  "Cashel  Byron's  Profes- 
sion," by  George  Bernard  Shaw.  The  next 
year  H.  H.  Frazee  featured  him  in  "Fac- 
ing the  Music,"  which  was  in  turn  fol- 
lowed by  "Home  Again."  At  this  time 
vaudeville  began  making  its  deep  inroads 
into  the  older  form  of  stage  entertainment, 
and  Corbett  was,  of  course,  one  of  the 
first  to  be  lured  away. 


JAMES  J.  CORBETT 

The  Raver  star  found  opportunity  also 
.to  serve  as  interlocuter  with  George 
"Honey  Boy"  Evans'  Minstrels  for  a  sea- 
son, and  also  to  spend  a  couple  of  years 
in  the  then  popular  stock  companies  of 
the  Proctor  organization. 

For  his  present  picture  appearance,  Mr. 
Corbett  has  been  surrounded  with  a  special 
cast.  Becky  Bruce,  in  the  character  of 
Catherine  Fulton,  is  his  leading  lady. 

"The  Other  Girl"  entails  a  cast  of  more 
than  four  hundred.  Director  of  Produc- 
tions Winter  is  well  under  way  with  the 
exterior  scenes,  and  will  shortly  be  pre- 
pared to  commence  his  indoor  studio  work. 


New  York  recently  was  due  to  the  fact 
that  they  won  a  popularity  contest,  con- 
ducted by  the  Metropolis,  a  Jacksonville, 
Fla.,  daily,  took  part  in  a  three-part  drama. 
"The  Money  Gulf,"  produced  by  Kalem. 

Although  a  trip  to  the  big  city  was  in 
itself  sufficient  to  make  every  girl  in  Jack- 
sonville determined  to  prove  herself  one 
of  the  five  most  popular  misses  residing  in 
that  city,  the  opportunity  to  take  part  in  a 
photoplay  was  the  stronger  attraction.  The 


BARTLETT,  AMERICAN  DIRECTOR, 
NARROWLY  ESCAPES  DEATH 

Charles  Bartlett,  director  of  the  Ameri- 
can (Mutual)  Santa  Barbara  studios,, 
barely  escaped  death  last  week  when  pre- 
paring for  making  some  scenes  in  a  loca- 
tion for  the  forthcoming  Mutual  release 
entitled  "Drifting." 

The  scenario  called  for  some  lively  action 
near  a  river,  and  the  director,  Tom  Middle- 
ton,  his  cameraman,  and  his  assistants  had 
started  across  the  Santa  Clara  river  on  the 
search  for  background,  when  Mr.  Bartlett 
began  to  sink  in  the  sands.  Middleton  tried 
to  reach  the  director  with  his  hands,  but 
nearly  was  caught  himself  in  the  treacher- 
ous ground. 

Finally,  a  rope  was  thrown  to  the  sink- 
ing man  from  a  huge  sycamore  tree,  and 
after  a  couple  of  hard  pulls,  Mr.  Bartlett 
was  released. 

The  director  recently  burned  an  entire 
village  for  "Out  of  the  Ashes,"  a  two  reel 
Mutual  release  in  the  regular  Mutual  pro- 
gram, October  25. 


THE     JACKSONVILLE     ftUINTET.     WHO  WILL 
APPEAR  IN  KALEM'S  "THE  MONEY  GULF" 

contest  was  strenuously  contested  from  the 
outset  and  thousands  of  votes  were  polled. 

Before  leaving  for  New  York,  the  win- 
ners were  cast  for  their  respective  roles  in 
"The  Money  Gulf,"  by  Harry  Millarde, 
who  is  producing  this  feature  at  the  Kalem 
studios  in  Jacksonville. 

An  enjoyable  event  was  a  trip  to  Kalem's 
studios  where  one  of  the  episodes  in  "The 
Ventures  of  Marguerite,"  feature  Mar- 
guerite Courtot,  was  under  way,  and  the 
visitors  not  only  had  the  pleasure  of  meet- 
ing her  but  were  also  impressed  by  Pro- 
ducing Director  John  E.  Mackin  for  a 
magnificent  ballroom  scene  just  about  to  be 
staged.  Later,  the  girls  took  part  in  the 
conservatory  scene  of  this  "Venture." 


REMARKABLE  BALLROOM   SCENE  IN 
"VANITY  FAIR  " 

"Vanity  Fair,"  the  great  Edison  master- 
piece starring  Mrs.  Fiske,  which  was  re- 
cently completed  at  the  Bronx  studios  of 
the  Edison  Company,  contains  an  elaborate 
ballroom  scene  which  for  size  and  magnifi- 
cence is  said  to  be  unrivaled.  The  Edison 
Company  made  immense  preparations  for 
this  big  scene,  renting  innumerable  furni- 
ture "props"  and  costumes  of  the  period. 
The  description  of  Lady  Richardson's  ball 
in  "Vanity  Fair"  is  frequently  referred  to 
as  one  of  the  greatest  bits  of  prose  in  the 
English  language.  To  visualize  this  beauti- 
ful scene  as  Thackeray  would  have  wished 
to  see  it,  was  the  ambition  of  everyone  in- 
terested in  its  staging,  from  director  to 
"props." 

The  entire  Edison  studio  was  used  for 
making  this  mammoth  scene. 


Essanay  Begins  Action  Against  Alleged  Dupers 

Company  Brings  Suit  Against  Pierson  Film  Laboratories  and  the  Mt.  Vernon  Motion  Picture 
Company — Levi  and  Lewis  Arrested  on  Charges  of  Violating  Copyright  Law 

VIGOROUS  action  has  been  instituted     at  Mt.  Vernon,  New  York,  and  at  the  Pier- 
bv  the  Fssanav  Film  Manufacturins     son  Film  Laboratories  at  Ossining,  New 

York,  on  the  same  date  the  writs  were 


KALEM  GIVES  FIVE  SOUTHERN  GIRLS 
TRIP  TO  NEW  YORK 

The  Misses  Marie  Bain.  Gladys  Thorn- 
ton, Jessie  Ruth  Snow,  Mary  Lee  House 
and  Mary  Lee  Miller,  whose  presence  in 


'IGOROUS  action  has  been  instituted 
by  the  Essanay  Film  Manufacturing 
Company  against  the  alleged  duplicators 
of  several  of  the  most  popular  films  issued 
by  this  company.  Through  its  attorney, 
LeRoy  D.  Ball,  of  290  Broadway,  New 
York,  the  Essanay  company  is  making 
every  eflfort  to  run  to  earth  those  who  have 
been  stealing  the  Essanay  features,  and 
not  only  bring  them  to  justice,  but  to  stop 
the  wholesale  duplications  which  have  been 
going  on. 

Essanay  has  brought  suit  against  Harold 
C.  Pierson,  Paul  M.  Pierson,  David  Eisen- 
stein  and  the  Pierson  Film  Laboratories, 
Inc.,  and  Paul  R.  Hedrick,  J.  Blair  Smith, 
individually,  and  as  co-partners  doing 
business  under  the  name  of  the  Mt.  Vernon 
Motion  Picture  Company. 

Also  on  September  2,  writs  of  seizure 
were  issued  by  Judge  Hough  of  the  United 
States  District  Court  for  the  Southern  Dis- 
trict of  New  York,  and  under  these  writs, 
United  States  marshals  made  seizures  at 
the  Mt.  Vernon  Motion  Picture  Company 


issued. 

Seizures  were  also  made  on  September 
2,  under  an  execution  to  the  Sheriff,  at  the 
office  of  Abraham  G.  Levi,  doing  business 
at  145  West  Forty-fifth  street,  New  York. 
Numerous  pieces  of  alleged  duped  positive 
film  were  seized,  and  there  were  found  in 
the  possession  of  Levi  alleged  duped  posi- 
tives of  the  Essanay  productions,  "The 
Champion"  and  "A  Night  Out." 

In  the  suit  instituted  against  the  Mt.  Ver- 
non people,  several  pieces  of  alleged  duped 
negatives  were  seized,  and  the  company 
admitted  having  burned  their  negative  of 
"The  Champion,"  just  prior  to  the  seizure. 

A.  George  Levi  and  Philip  Lewis  of  the 
Lewis  Pennant  Features,  doing  business  at 
110  West  Fortieth  street.  New  York,  were 
arrested  on  charges  of  violating  the  copy- 
right act.  On  September  29,  indictments 
were  handed  down  against  them,  and  each 
was  released  on  $1,000  baii. 


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Vol.  12.   No.  18. 


HORSLEY  SELECTS  WILBUR  SUBJECT 
FOR  NOVEMBER  CENTAUR 
Having  hnished  the  production  of  "The 
Blood  of  Our  Rrothers,"  the  Centaur  star 
feature  release  on  the  Mutual  program  for 
October,  David  -Horslej-  has  started  work 
on  the  Xovenil)er  release  of  this  brand.  He 
has  selected  a  scenario  entitled  "Could  a 
Man  Do  More?'"  written  by  Crane  Wilbur, 
who  was  also  responsible  for  "The  Blood 
of  Our  Brothers." 

Besides  being  the  author  of  "Could  a 
Man  Do  More?"  Mr.  Wilbur  will  play  the 
leading  part.  This  character  is  a  minister 
in  a  little  Southern  town,  the  period  being 
immediately  after  the  Civil  war.  While  the 
moving  spirit  in  it  is  a  minister,  the  story 
does  not  possess  any  particular  religious 
tone.  Its  moral  teaches  brotherly-love. 
The  minister  is  not  of  any  particular  de- 
nomination or  faith,  but  a  sort  of  leader, 
a  man  of  great  attainments.  He  is  one  of 
those  free  tiiinking  preachers  who  refuses 
to  confine  hnnself  to  wearing  apparel  of 
distinct  clerical  cut. 

Through  the  machinations  of  a  younger 
brother  entrusted  to  his  care  upon  the 
death  of  his  mother,  and  whom  lie  at- 
tempts to  shield,  he  becomes  the  target  of 
iibuse  from  his  flock  and  is  finally  driven 
from  the  town.  The  lialance  rights  itself, 
however,  and  in  the  end  the  minister  is 
restored  to  his  former  status. 

The  production  is  now  being  made  under 
the  direction  of  R.  B.  Broadwell,  who  is 
the  latest  director  to  join  Mr.  Horsley's 
staff.  It  is  to  be  in  three  reels  and  will  be 
released  Xuvemher  24. 


BIG  Scenes  in  -nedra,*'  new  gold 

ROOSTER  PLAY 

"Xedra."  the  Gold  Rouster  play  adapted 
from  ('ieor.ge  Barr  McCutcheon's  well 
known  book,  has  now  been  tuiished  by 
Edward  Jose,  and  put  down  for  release  on 
the  Pathe  prooram  for  Friday,  Novem- 
ber 12. 

Thousand.--  of  "e-vtras  '  were  used,  and 
there  are  a  number  of  liig  scenes,  among 
them  a  battle  between  hordes  of  savages. 
Many  of  the  scenes  were  staged  in  the 
Bahamas  in  the  midst  of  perfect  tropical 
backgrounds. 

A  cast  including  George  Probert,  Fania 
Marinoff,  Margaret  Greene  and  Craufurd 
Kent,  have  dime  excellent  work  in  the 
picture. 

AUGUSTA  ANDERSON,  FORMER 
BELASCO  STAR.  BEAUTY 
CONTEST  WINNER 

Augusta  Anderson,  known  as  one  of 
the  prettiest  women  on  the  stage  or 
before  the  camera,  has  definitely  resolved 
to  devote  her  artistic  energies  in  future 
to  film  productions  exclusively. 

David  Belasco  had  Miss  Anderson  under 
his  direction  in  stage  plays  for  several 
years,  starring  her  in  "The  Good  Little 
Devil."  "The  Governor's  Lady,''  "Years  of 
Discretion,"  "The  Man  Inside,"  and  other 
productions. 

The  Biograph  Company  featured  Miss 
Anderson  as  its  leading  lady  for  over  a 
year,  and  she  successfully  appeared  in 
numerous  one  and  two-reel  productions 
that  made   her  exceedingly  popular  with 


motion  picture  theatre  goers.  So  pleased 
are  the  "fans"  with  Miss  Anderson's  beauty 
and  personality  that  whenever  she  enters 
a  popularity  contest  she  is  generally  the 
winner. 

Miss     .\nderson's     repertoire  includes 


AUGUSTA  ANDERSON 

vampire  parts,  but  she  is  at  her  best  in 
society  dramas  demanding  grace  of  action, 
elegance  of  style  and  intensity  of  imper- 
sonation. 


"A  MAN'S  MAKING"  WILL  BE  FINISHED 
SOON  BY  LUBIN 

Director  Jack  Pratt,  with  Richard 
Buhler,  Rosetta  Brice  and  the  balance  of 
his  compan\-,  who  have  been  at  Block 
Island  for  the  past  few  weeks  on  the  pro- 
duction of  Pratt's  own  story,  "A  Man's 
Making,"   have   returned  to  Philadelphia. 


FRANCE  PICKS  PLAYERS  FOR  VOGUE 
COMEDIES 

Production  of  vogue  comedies  has  begun 
at  the  Vogue  studios  in  Los  Angeles. 
Charles  France,  producer,  has  gathered  his 
first  batch  of  comedians. 

"Russ"  Powell,  who  played  in  "The 
Chocolate  Soldier"  and  "The  Madcap 
Duchess,"  which  enjoyed  a  long  run  at  the 
Globe,  New  York,  has  joined  the  company. 

Priscilla  Dean  has  been  engaged  as  the 
comedy  ingenue.  Miss  Dean  began  with 
child  parts  in  the  companies  of  Joseph  Jef- 
ferson and  James  A.  Hearne. 

Lillian  Brown  Leighton  will  essay  the 
grotesque  comedy  parts,  and  William  Scott 
will  play  the  light  comedy  parts.  He  ap- 
peared with  Kelcey  and  Sha/inon,  and  later 
with  Maude  Adams  in  "Quality  Street." 
Producer  France  will  announce  other 
members  of  the  company  later. 


WEST,  OF  EDISON,  NOT  THE  WILLIAM 
WEST  REPORTED  DEAD 

Since  the  death  of  a  motion  picture  player 
of  the  same  name,  William  West,  that  vet- 
eran and  able  character  Edison  player,  has 
been  greatly  embarassed  through  acknowl- 
edging the  condolences  of  many  friends  who 
naturally  confused  the  Edison  actor  with 
his  namesake. 

It  may  be  safely  said  that  there  is  not  an 
actor  on  the  screen  who  can  better  depict 
the  pathetic  plight  of  old  age  than  he. 


COMPLETE  ELECTRIC  PLANT  PUT  IN 
AT  SELIG  JUNGLE-ZOO 

A  complete  electric  lighting  plant  has 
been  installed  at  the  Selig  Jungle-Zoo  at 
Los  Angeles. 

William  N.  Selig.  president  of  the  Selig 
Polyscope  Company,  also  recenth-  ordered 
constructed  about  a  mile  of  new  roadway 
at  the  zoo. 


"How  Molly  Made  Good"  Opens  Soon  in  Philadelphia 

November  1  is  the  Date  Set  for  Photodrania  Company's  Original  Production,  to  Appear  in 
the  Quaker  City,  and  Indications  Point  to  a  Successful  Run 


THE  initial  public  performance  of  "How 
Molly  Made  Good."  the  Kulee  feat- 
ure with  twehe  dramatic  stars,  will  be 
given  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House, 
Philadelphia,  beginning  Monday,  Xovem- 
l)er  1. 

The  widespread  interest  already  created 
in  Philadelphia  on  the  announcement  of 
this  engagement  augers  well  for  the  suc- 
cess of  the  productions.  Twelve  names 
like  those  in  the  film  should  make  "How 
Molly  Made  Good"  one  of  the  biggest 
box  office  winners  of  the  season. 

In  devising  ways  and  means  of  utiliz- 
ing twelve  big  stars  and  giving  each  star 
an  equal  opportunity  to  score,  recourse 
was  had  to  a  subject  which  has  always 
interested  the  public,  nanielj-,  the  private 
life  of  the  great  actors,  and  by  utilizing 
this  phase  of  the  stars'  lives  a  most  in- 
teresting vehicle  was  created. 

The  story  has  a  charm  of  sustained  in- 
terest. The  girl  is  to  be  put  upon  her 
mettle  to  complete  the  task  within  a 
certain  limited  period  of  time.  This  gives 
her  some  speculation  and  her  work  is 
beset  with  handicaps  and  there  is  always 


the  chance  of  her  failing,  and  it  is  this 
uncertaintj'  that  keeps  the  audience  on 
edge. 

One  is  first  introduced  to  Madame 
Fjorde,  the  celebrated  singer  of  the  Royal 
Opera,  Berlin,  on  board  ship  on  her  ar- 
rival in  this  country.  Here  begins  the 
chain  which  binds  the  twelve  stars  to- 
gether. We  have  Lulu  Glaser,  the  cele- 
brated singing  comedienne,  whose  suc- 
cess in  Dolly  Varden  made  her  name  a 
household  word.  At  her  home  one  is  in- 
troduced to  her  mother  and  is  given  a 
view  of  her  domestic  circle,  then  trans- 
ported in  rapid  succession  to  the  homes 
of  Cj'ril  Scott.  Robert  Edeson.  Julian 
Eltinge,  May  Robson,  Henrietta  Cros- 
man,  Julia  Dean,  Leo  Ditrichstein.  Henry 
Kolker.  Charles  J.  Ross  and  Mabel  Fen- 
ton  and  is  shown  just  how  the  great  stars 
live  when  they  are  away  from  the  theatre 
and  in  the  charmed  circle  of  their  fam- 
ilies and  their  pets. 

The  technical  part  of  the  picture  was 
made  by  the  Photo-Drama  Company, 
with  Lawrence  B.  McGill  as  director  of  the 
production. 


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SCENES  THAT  MAKE  "THE  BLOOD  OF  OUR  BROTHERS,"  CENTAUR,  A  STRONG  MUTUAL  RELEASE 


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THE  TOLL  OF  WAR 


SHEPHERD  TURNS 
WARRIOR 


THE  CALL  OF  VENGEANCE 


"THE  BLOOD  OF  OUR  BROTHERS" 

(Centaur-Mutual — Three  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  HARVEY  F.  THEW 

THIS  half-allegorical,  half-natural  preachment  against  war  and 
all  its  horror,  has  been  written  especially  to  tit  the  abilities 
of  Crane  Wilbur.  It  was  written  by  that  actor  himself  with  his 
own  abilities,  methods  and  mannerisms — everything,  in  fact,  except 
his  limitations  in  constant  .view. 

The  Horsley  studios  have  given  the  picture  an  elaborate  and  al- 
together excellent  setting.  Moreover,  the  action  is  rapid,  and  the 
story  interesting  enough  to  hold  the  attention  between  climaxes. 
The  stor\-  is  one  adapted  to  almost  any  period,  but  the  costuming 
is  that  of  the  modern  peasants  of  central  Europe.  Numerous  at- 
tractive scenes  show  the  simple  life  of  a  shepherd  and  his  com- 
panions, and  great  care  and  labor  has  been  expended  on  the 
glimpses  of  soldiery,  camp  life  and  the  devastation  of  war. 

Crane,  as  Kindheart.  a  simple,  but  entirely  heroic  shepherd,  is 
the  central  figure.  He  scorns  war,  marries  Devotion,  and  even 
endures  the  taunts  of  cowardice  to  remain  and  care  for  his  wife 
when  the  other  men  march  off  to  conflict.  He  tends  his  flocks  until 
a  party  of  soldiers  break  into  his  hut,  kill  Devotion  and  her  parents, 
and  lay  things  waste.  Then  the  hero  is  aroused  and  goes  forth  to 
seek  the  destroyers.  He  wanders  long  amid  encampments,  and 
finally  finds  them  and  avenges  Devotion.  The  lust  of  war  gets 
into  his  blood  and  he  keeps  on  his  work  of  destruction,  until  he 
finally  kills  \'alor,  the  brother  of  Devotion.  After  the  horror  of 
war  has  wrecked  the  countryside,  Kindheart  returns  to  his  desolate 
home  and  his  untended  flocks. 

There  is  much  in  the  picture  which  will  appeal,  especially  at  this 
time,  and  it  should  find  a  warm  public  welcome.  The  points  in  the 
moral  lesson  are  well  worked  up  and  c/riven  home  clearly.  The 
piece  was  produced  by  Arthur  Maude.  In  the  cast  are  Cdia  San- 
ton,  Carl  Von  Schiller,  Ed.  Collins,  Harry  De  Roy  and  Victor 
Rottman. 


'  COMRADE  JOHN" 

fPathe  Gold  Rooster — Five  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  HARVEY  F.  THEW 

IT  is  seldom  we  see  good  a  picture  as  this  new  member  of  the 
Gold  Rooster  family.  Viewed  from  almost  every  standpoint, 
the  picture  appears  to  us  as  good,  and  analysis  fails  to  furnish 
any  reason  for  its  being  so,  save  that  careful  attention  has  been 
given  to  each  of  the  several  factors  which  make  a  real  picture. 

First,  there  is  a  story;  original,  logical,  absorbing,  and  free 
from  the  fatty  degeneration  which  smothers  so  many  productions 
nowadays.  It  is  b\-  Samuel  Merwin  and  Henry  Kitchell  Webster, 
who  formed  a  productive  partnership  as  authors  of  "Calumet  K" 
hack  in  the  dim  past.  It  has  been  picturized  from  the  novel  in  a 
direct,  clean  and  clear  manner,  just  as  such  a  story  should  be  told. 
Second,  there  is  a  capable  company,  the  leading  members  of  which 
seem  to  have  understood  what  it  was  all  about,  and  have  exer- 
cised considerable  common  sense  in  going  about  their  work. 
William  Elliott  and  Ruth  Roland  are  the  leaders  in  this  galaxy, 
and  they  deserve  to  be;  others,  such  as  Madeline  Pardee,  Louis 


Cody  and  William  Lanipc,  are  a  credit  to  the  Halboa  forces. 
Lastly,  the  director  has  dressed  all  this  in  a  mixture  of  enchant- 
ing landscape,  scenes  of  busy  industry,  and  melodramatic  thrills, 
which  bring  out  its  greatest  value. 

Beginning  with  an  American  architect  reading  quietly  in  a  room 
of  a  Paris  hotel,  the  spectator  is  hurried  through  glimpses  of 
Parisian  street  life,  shipboard  scenes  which  have  the  lift  and  drift 
of  the  real  salt  sea,  a  vision  of  toil  and  the  "dream  city"  which  is 
its  result,  to  a  climax  of  fire  in  which  the  dream  city  and  the 
charlatan  who  conceived  it,  are  wiped  out. 

The  fire  is  staged  with  wonderful  realism,  and  William  Elliott 
walks  through  actual  flames — or  appears  to — to  rescue  a  fair  lady. 
It  is  plain  that  a  fair-sized  city  has  been  built  for  the  purpose  of 
this  picture,  and  destroyed  with  the  fire  which  ends  it. 

Ruth  Roland  has  never  been  seen  to  better  advantage  than  in  the 
role  of  Cynthia  Grey.  It  gives  her  excellent  opportunity  to  ex- 
hibit several  types  of  becoming  costumes,  and  she  takes  full  ad- 
vantage of  it. 


"THE  FAMILY  STAIN" 

(Fox  Film — Five  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  OSCAR  COOPER 

FROM  Gaboriau's  story  "The  Widow  Lerouge,"  William  Fox 
has  taken  his  first  mystery  theme  for  the  screen,  and  given 
it  a  cast  of  unusually  competent  players,  and  settings  of  the  ex- 
cellence one  has  come  to  expect  from  Fox. 

Of  course  with  Gaboriau  the  original  creator  of  the  plot,  one  is 
guaranteed  genuine  mystery,  if  only  the  adaptation  is  made  skill- 
fully. This  \\'\\\  S.  Davis  has  done,  in  addition  to  directing  the 
production. 

Rarely  has  Fox  been  happier  in  the  choice  of  his  players  for  a 
given  picture.  Frederick  Perry,  as  the  father  who  arranges  an 
exchange  of  infants,  which  turns  out  in  the  end  not  to  have  been 
an  exchange,  but  nevertheless  the  basis  for  a  murder,  gives  his 
abilities  full  play  in  a  role  that  is  necessarily  circumscribed  by 
reason  of  the  plot.  He  is  to  an  appreciable  extent  overshadowed 
by  Einer  Linden,  whom  we  have  not  previously  seen  in  photoplays. 
Linden,  we  believe,  will  be  heard  from  later  as  an  actor  with  an 
unusual  capability  in  >tragic  parts.  Other  members  of  the  cast 
were  evidently  selected  with  care,  for  they  are  entirely  adequate — 
in  fact,  far  above  the  average  found  in  detective  plays — Walter 
Miller.  Stephen  Gratton,  Carey  Lee,  Dixie  Compton,  Helen  Tiffany, 
Frank  Evans,  Edith  Hallor,  Mayme  Kelso,  Louis  Hendricks,  Carl 
Gerard. 

The  action  moves  swiftly,  in  spite  of  a  rather  complicated  plot. 
The  director,  with  an  eye  for  realism,  has  provided,  among  other 
things,  one  of  the  most  successful  rain  storms  ever  screened.  Or 
to  put  it  more  accurately,  the  director  took  a  natural  rain  storm 
and  made  it  one  of  the  most  telling  features  of  his  picture.  An- 
other piece  of  work  for  which  we  commend  the  director  particularly 
is  his  staging  of  the  "third  degree"'  scenes.  Not  only  are  they 
carried  through  without  exaggeration,  but  their  value  is  also 
heightened  by  lighting  effects  that  are  splendidly  worked. 

No  extended  sketch  of  the  plot  is  necessary  here.  It  will  keep 
anv  audience,  guessing,  and  thoroughlv  absorbed. 


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Vol.  12.    No.  V". 


THE  FOURTH  KNICKERBOCKER  TRIANGLE  PROGRAM 

("His    Father's    Footsteps"— Keystone — Two    Parts.       "The    Martyrs    of  the 
Alamo"— Fine  Arts  Film— Five  Parts.      "Fickle  Fatty's  Fall"— Keystone- 
Two  Parts.      "Matrimony" — Kay-Bee — Five  Parts.) 

REVIE-WED  BY  WILLIAM  EESSMAN  ANDREWS 

'T'HE  fourth  offering  of  the  Triangle  Company  maintains  the 
A     high  standard  set  by  the  pictures  previously  shown  at  the 
Knickerbocker  theatre.    The  four  plays  run  the  whole  gamut  of 
emotions  from  chuckled-headed  mirth  to  the  tenderest  feelings. 

One  witnesses  the  emotional  struggles  of  a  loving  wife  trying 
to  win  back  the  affections  of  an  erratic  husband;  or  the  heroic 
sacrifices  of  magnificent  frontier  types  whose  careers  serve  to 
stir  the  patriotism  of  our  own  generation;  or  again,  the  less 
subtle,  less  rousing  in  its  appeal  to  the  finer  instincts,  but  never- 
theless fully  as  interesting— the  fascinating  industry  of  a  monu- 
mentally fat  man  frantically  unwmding  an  uncooked  beefsteak 
from  his  neck,  where  it  reposed  like  a  pearl  necklace  or  a  new- 
kind  of  life  preserver. 

So  there  you  are — your  patrons  can  take  their  choice.  All  moods 
are  easily  satisfied  with  the  Triangle  pictures  this  week.  If  Bill 
Jones  has  a  grouch  lure  him  to  the  theatre  showing  Triangle 
films  and  Roscoe  Arbuckle  and  Ford  Sterling  will  make  him 
forget  his  liver  trouble  in  a  continual  uproar  of  laughter — until 
the  curtain  goes  down,  anyhow. 

Their  antics  in  "His  Father's  Footsteps"  and  "Fickle  Fatty's 
Fall,"  respectively,  will  make  the  grouchy  patron  out-grin  the 
proverbial  Cheshire  cat — an  animal  supposed  to  have  gained  its 
wonderful  proficiency  in  the  art  of  grimace  by  years  of  persistent 
effort  and  careful  attention  to  detail  under  the  supervision  of 
the  best  studio  directors. 

Those  who  had  read  accounts  of  the  American  border  and  its 
wild  uncertain  ways  by  such  men  as  Cyrus  Townsend  Brady 
naturally  looked  forward  to  a  thrilling  picture  in  "The  Martyrs 
of  the  Alamo."  But  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  most  imaginative 
reader,  full  of  frontier  life  from  his  border  historians,  could  not 
have  visualized  one-tenth  the  action,  the  local  color,  the  cliaracter- 
ization  of  types  peculiar  to  Texas  in  1836,  he  might  see  in  this 
Griffith  masterpiece. 

With  his  usual  unerring  eye  for  the  fitness  of  things,  the  pro- 
ducer of  this  picture  provided  all  the  necessary  touches  of  time 
and  place  to  make  everything  historically  correct. 

The  muskets  had  long  round  barrels, '  wooden  ramrods  under- 
neath and  conspicuously  angular  triggers,  characteristic  of  the 
firearms  of  the  period. 

The  frontiersmen  wore  coonskin  caps,  while  others,  only  a  short 
time  out  of  the  cities,  wore  huge  flapping  beaver  hats — just  as  in 
the  old  prints  they  have  come  down  to  us  from  those  times. 

The  Mexican  soldiery  were  costumed  according  to  the  period, 
and  the  cannon,  brought  by  them  to  batter  down  the  walls  of  the 
church  sheltering  the  spirited  band  of  American  fighters,  showed 
the  same  Griffith  care  in  the  making.  These  culverines  had  the 
protruding  handles,  like  those  on  a  grandmother's  castiron  pot, 
that  give  the  small  cannon  of  that  early  time  a  peculiar  appearance. 

Every  adult  who  had  formed  any  conception  from  his  schoolboy 
hero  worship  of  such  men  as  Sam  Houston,  David  Crockett, 
James  Bowie,  and  in  lesser  degree.  Silent  Smith,  must  have 
waited  with  a  great  deal  of  curiosity  for  the  appearance  of  the 
actors  impersonating  these  mighty  nimrods  and  fearless  patriots. 
And  one's  expectations  were  not  disappointed.  Sam  DeGrasse  as 
Silent  Smith,  Tom  Wilson  as  Sam  Houston,  A.  D.  Sears  as 
David  Crockett  and  Alfred  Paget  as  James  Bowie  deserve  com- 
mendation for  their  conceptions  of  these  extraordinary  characters. 
They  have  helped  us  to  cherish  in  no  other  possible  way  the  boy- 
hood memory  of  these  men,  cast  in  heroic  mold,  whose  deeds 
will  now  no  longer  live  merely  in  books. 

Under  Griffith's  wonderful  direction  we  miss  nothing  in  these 
characterizations.  Take  for  instance,  long,  lithe,  cynical  and 
sinister,  but  for  all  that  an  extraordinary  man— Bowie,  the  hunter, 
who,  not  satisfied  with  the  cutting  instruments  of  his  time,  in- 
vented a  combination  knife,  which,  like  Samson's  horse  liniment, 
advertised  on  country  fences,  "was  good  for  man  or  beast." 

We  get  just  a  flash  of  Inventor  Bowie  sitting  in  close  confab 
with  Davy  Crockett,  who,  gun  in  hand,  is  descanting  on  the  com- 
fortable feeling  engendered  by  the  possession  of  a  sure-aim 
weapon,  with  lots  of  ammunition.  Bowie,  contending  that  "the 
knife's  the  thing,"  in  a  reasonably  close  encounter  with  an  enemy, 
illustrates  his  argument  with  the  sudden  withdrawal  from  his 
waistcoat  region  of  a  knife,  which  is  thrust  at  Davy's  ribs  with 
lightning-like  rapidity. 


The  whole  situation,  while  having  nothing  to  do  with  the  plot, 
and  does  not  carry  on  the  action  in  any  way,  is  not  out  of  place! 
The  incident  was  deftly  inserted  in  the  picture  to  draw  character 
and  help  the  spectator  to  understand  the  manner  of  men  who 
lived  in  Texas  in  those  gnarled  days  of  privation  and  peril. 

The  story  of  the  hopeless  stand  made  by  the  resolute  band  of 
250  odd  patriots,  schooled  in  the  Indian,  no-quarter  method  of 
fighting,  and  thus  knowing  what  to  expect  from  their  resistance, 
these  men  whose  deeds  have  burnt  themselves  into  the  hearts  of 
Americans,  like  the  handful  of  Greeks  of  old  at  Thermopylae  in 
their  annals— this  wonderful  story  of  the  250  against  5,000,  had  in- 
deed found  a  worthy  historian,  able  to  make  it  more  interesting 
than  the  printed  page. 


"THE  CRIMSON  WING" 

(Essanay — Six  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  OSCAR  COOPER 

A  ROMANCE  of  the  present  European  war,  with  a  cast  of 
■<V  screen  favorites— among  them  E.  H.  Calvert,  Bryant  Wash- 
burn, Beverly  Bayne,  and  Ruth  Stonehouse— this  picture,  without 
using  heavy  sets  or  extensive  battle  panoramas,  pleases,  but  does 
not  thrill. 

Except  for  the  fact  that  a  certain  timeliness  is  gained  by  em- 
ploying the  now-raging  war  as  a  background,  any  other  war  would 
have  served  just  as  well  as  a  setting  for  the  love  theme,  which 
is  the  principal  thing  in  the  picture ;  the  love  of  a  French  girl  for 
a  German  soldier.  The  subplot  concerns  the  reformation  of  an 
actress,  who  becomes  disgusted  with  a  life  of  revelry,  enters  the 
Red  Cross  Service,  and  nurses  the  German  soldier— whom  she 
also  loves — back  to  health. 

Then  she  poisons  herself  in  order  to  escape  from  the  man  of 
her  past. 

The  picture  does  not  attempt  to  preach  a  sermon,  nor  to  show 
the  horrors  of  war.  It  simply  tells  a  pretty  story — and  one  that 
needs  beauty,  manliness,  and  a  villain  in  the  telling.  Beverly 
Bayne  and  Ruth  Stonehouse  supply  the  first;  E.  H.  Calvert,  in 
particular  the  second;  and  John  Cossar  the  third.  The  additional 
presence  in  the  cast  of  Betty  Scott,  Harry  Dunkinson,  and  Grant 
Foreman  adds  to  its  power  to  please. 

A  comparatively  small  number  of  extras  are  used  in  the  battle 
scenes,  which  are  therefore  slender.  On  the  other  hand,  views 
of  country  estates,  fine  roads  and  parks,  fit  perfectly  into  the  spirit 
of  the  production.  Several  inserts  show  European  troops  in  ac- 
tion, apparently  at  maneuvers. 

The  director  was  E.  H.  Calvert,  and  the  author.  H.  C.  Chat- 
field  Taylor. 


■WHEN  APPEARANCES  DECEIVE" 

(Kalem — One  Reel) 
REVIEWED  BY  HARVEY  F.  THEW 

THIS  first  episode  in  the  much-heralded  "Ventures  of  Mar- 
guerite" series,  reveals  a  snap  and  piquancy  of  action  which 
fit  well  around  the  personality  of  their  charming  little  star.  The 
plat  is  not  startlingly  original  in  its  development  or  surroundings, 
but  Marguerite  Courtot  is  an  attractive  figure  on  the  screen,  and 
makes  up  for  other  shortcomings. 

These  shortcomings  are  minor,  anyway,  and  all  in  all,  the  pic- 
ture is  so  good  as  to  be  refreshing.  Everybody  keeps  busy,  and 
the  author  has  laid  out  no  work  which  cannot  be  accomplished 
in  a  natural  manner.  Marguerite  is  an  heiress,  who  has  devoted 
her  time  to  ventures  in  assisting  the  troubled,  and  uplifting  the 
lowly.  In  the  first  episode,  she  is  dining  in  a  restaurant  with  her 
guardian,  when  she  sees  a  man  browbeating  a  woman  at  another 
table. 

When  the  man  leaves  for  a  moment,  she  goes  over  and  offers 
to  assist  the  victim.  The  woman  accepts  her  aid,  and  the  two 
leave  the  restaurant  together. 

Arriving  at  a  house  in  the  suburbs.  Marguerite  finds  she  has 
been  cleverly  trapped  by  a  band  of  kidnappers,  who  staged  the 
restaurant  scene  for  her  benefit.  She  is  extricated  when  the  man, 
leader  of  the  band,  makes  love  to  her,  and  rouses  the  woman  to  a 
frenzy  of  jealousy. 

The  settings  are  elaborate,  and  many  scenes  will  arouse  the  ad- 
miration of  .spectators.  Richard  Purdon,  E.  T.  Roseman  and 
Paula  Sherman,  who  are  also  in  the  cast,  are  capable  assistants 
to  Miss  Courtot. 


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SCENES  FROM  "THE  MAN  OF  GOD,"   '-THE  STRANGE  UNKNOWN,  "   AND  '  THE  INEVITABLE  PENALTY" 


"THE  STRANGE  UNKNOWN" 

(Lubin — Three  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  PETER  MILNE 

""PlHIS  production  written  by  William  H.  Ratterman  results  in 
A  I  a  mystery-melodrama,  consistently  and  evenly  developed  and 
endowed  with  a  generous  portion  of  suspense.  There  are  a  credit- 
able number  of  intense  situations,  well  handled  by  the  cast  and 
director.  The  acting  in  fact  is  unusually  good  for  a  program 
release,  »the  three  leading  players  rendering  especially  effective 
characterizations. 

The  climax  is  quietly  brought  about,  but  save  for  a  compara- 
tively weak  show  of  feeling  affected  by  the  hero  towards  the 
woman  who  deceived  him,  is  strong  enough  to  cap  the  main  por- 
tion of  the  picture  with  an  appropriate  finale.  There  is  just  a 
little  uncertainty  on  the  part  of  the  spectatojp  as  to  where  some 
of  the  action  is  transpiring,  but  this  destroys  none  of  the  interest 
created  by  the  exciting  plot. 

The  story  tells  how  a  jealous  woman  imprisoned  her  step-sister 
in  a  room  at  the  top  of  the  house  that  she  may  be  free  to  win 
the  man  they  both  love.  The  man,  an  artist,  is  finally  acquainted 
by  means  of  a  series  of  strong  situations,  with  the  girl's  act  of 
perfidy,  and  at  length  he  is  reunited  with  the  one  he  really  loves. 

Helen  Eddy,  as  the  mistreated  step-sister,  performs  exceedingly 
well  and  with  a  pleasing  display  of  appreciative  emotion.  L.  C. 
Shumway  as  the  artist  is  a  pleasant  appearing  hero,  and  Dorothy 
Barrett  as  the  other  sister  lends  to  her  role  a  magnetism  that 
predominates  over  its  disagreeable  traits. 

"The  Strange  Unknown"  is  a  very  worthy  offering,  its  action 
and  its  interpretation  both  being  finished  enough  to  place  the  pic- 
ture in  the  class  of  good  jhree  reel  features. 


"THE  MAN  OF  GOD" 

(Lubin — Two  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  i>ETER  MILNE 

««'~pHE  MAN  OF  GOD"  was  conceived  and  produced  by  George 
1  W.  Terwilliger,  and  presents  a  most  unusual  theme  in  a 
logical  and  strong  manner.  It  is  one  of  the  strongest  two-reelers 
that  the  screen  has  seen  in  days  and  should  be  widely  shown  by 
exhibitors,  for  it  contains  all  the  elements  that  go  to  make  a  fine 
picture.  It  is  well  handled,  its  acting  is  of  the  finest,  and  its 
direction  stamps  Mr.  Terwilliger  as  an  artist  capable  of  even 
greater  things. 

The  most  effective  point  in  "The  Man  of  God"  is  its  sound 
psychology.  The  action  is  sincerely  motivated  in  practically  every 
instance.  The  climax  is  the  only  place  in  which  realism  is  sacri- 
ficed for  dramatic  effect,  but  Mr.  Terwilliger  has  achieved  this 
climax  through  a  series  of  logical  situations  that  tend  to  entirely 
discountenance  its  improbability. 

The  drama  starts  following  a  wreck.  There  are  three  survivors 
washed  on  a  desert  isle,  a  priest,  a  woman,  and  a  common  flirt. 
The  flirt  sets  out  to  win  the  woman,  but  she  seeks  protection  from 
the  priest,  who  is  obliged  to  employ  his  fists  to  quell  the  young 
man.  The  flirt  dies  from  a  snake  bite  and  fever.  Later  a  ship  is 
sighted,  and  to  save  the  woman's  name  from  any  possible  blemish 
the  priest  sends  her  off  alone. 

The  scenes  between  the  woman  and  the  priest,  when  she  is  pas- 
sionately beseeching  him  to  return  her  love,  are  extremely  power- 
ful, due  to  the  delicacy  of  the  situation  and  the  vivid  portrayals 


of  the  two  roles  rendered  by  Earl  Metcalfe  and  Ormi  Hawley. 
Kempton  Greene  handles  his  distasteful  part  of  the  flirt  in  an 
expressive  manner.  With  regard  to  the  photography,  scenes  and 
the  realism  of  the  atmosphere,  little  need  be  said,  save  that  they 
are  very  good.  In  fact  the  entire  feature  merits  a  featured  posi- 
tion on  the  program  of  the  program  house. 


"MANNA" 

(Gold  Seal-U:iiversal — Two  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  PETER  MILNE 

THIS  is  a  picture  that  shows  distinctly  the  touch  of  the  director, 
Henry  Otto.  It  is  full  of  those  entirely  "too  good  to  be 
true"  incidents  that  when  handled  correctly  go  to  make  a  picture 
thoroughly  enjoyable.  What  makes  "Manna"  considerably  more 
pleasing  is  its  refreshing  story  from  the  pen  of  Olga  Prinzlau  Clark. 

Consequently  even  though  some  of  the  situations  are  unbeliev- 
able enough  to  warrant  their  being  defined  as  melodramatic,  the 
whole  picture  appears  far  removed  from  melodrama,  because  of 
the  numerous  pleasantries  contained  in  the  unconventional  plot. 

An  invalid  girl,  supported  by  her  sister  who  is  a  factory  worker, 
conceives  a  'plan  whereby  she  may  be  of  help  to  the  world.  She 
inscribes  small  cards  with  Biblical  quotations  and  flicks  them  out 
the  window.  Appropriate  lines  are  discovered  by  unthinking  and 
misguided  people,  with  the  result  that  many  reform.  One  of  the 
pasteboards  lands  in  the  hat  of  the  woman  who  is  planning  to 


CAUGHT  AT  HIS  OWN  GAME 

abduct  the  invalid's  sister,  and  so  influences  her  that  she  helps  her 
contemplated  victim  to  escape.  As  a  finale  we  are  shown  the  girl, 
completely  cured,  due  to  the  charity  of  a  rich  woman,  whose  heart 
was  changed  by  one  of  the  cards.  The  sister  is  happy  with  her 
lover,  the  young  doctor  who  performed  the  successful  operation. 

Oliver  Fuller  Golden  does  very  good  work  as  the  invalid ;  Edna 
Maison  has  a  smaller  part  as  her  sister,  while  Louella  Maxim  is 
another  prominent  in  the  well  balanced  cast.  "Manna"  is  cer- 
tainlv  a  welcome  relief  from  the  usual  murderous  melodrama. 


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\oL  12.   No.  18. 


-THE  SECRET  SIN" 

Laskj. Paramount — Five  Reels) 
3EV1EWn:D  BY  PETEE  MILNE 

(('~r'HE  SElRlT  SIX"  is  a  thoroughly  enjoyable  picture.  In 
A  it  Blanche  Sweet  appears  in  a  dual  role,  parts  which  offer  her 
a  wide  field  over  which  to  display  her  diversified  moods  and  ex- 
pressions. She  !i  again  as  in  "  The  Case  of  Becky,"'  a  good  and 
bad  personalit}'  While  bad.  as  Grace,  she  suffers  the  tortures  of 
drugs.  Fortunately  Frank  Reicher,  the  director,  has  refrained 
from  displaying  any  obtrusive  scenes,  showing  violent  ravings  of 
drug  addictes.    The  disagreeableness  is  neatly  repressed. 

We  have  long  had  somewhat  of  an  aversion  to  a  star  handling 
a  dual  role.  Double  exposures  are  necessitated,  which  clog  the 
action.  Usually  the  two  characters  created  by  the  player  wear  a 
forced  air  of  aloofness  toward  each  other,  because  technique 
prevents  their  close  encounter.  With  "The  Secret  Sin.'"  this  cold- 
ness existing  berw-jeii  Edith  and  Grace  is  naturally  expected  and 
consequently  their  actions  in  the  double  exposure  scenes  tend  to 
convince,  in  mosr  -.p.stances.  These  scenes  are  handled  effectively 
in  both  a  dramatic  and  technical  sense. 

Margaret  Turnbull's  st^.ry  is  satisfactory  and  pleasing  in  every 
respect.  The  characters,  all  of  them,  gain  sympathy  as  soon  as 
they  are  introduced.  A  sustaining  amount  of  suspense  is  carried 
throughout  the  picture,  from  the  time  that  Grace,  the  drug  fiend, 
incriminates  her  iniiucent  sister  of  her  own  fearful  habit,  before 
her  lover,  until  the  tangle  thus  created  is  cleared.  The  climax  is 
strong  and  is  intensified  by  mysterious  and  rapid  action. 

!Miss  Sweet  as  Edith  and  Grace  gives  two  decisive  and  impres- 
sive characterizations.  Hal  Clements  as  their  father  and  Thomas 
Meighan  as  the  b.-ver  have  pleasant  parts  which  they  handle  well. 


THE  ORIENTAL  GETS  HIS  INSTRUCTIONS 


Sessue  Hayakawa  has  convincing  native  features  and  shows  marked 
ability  as  the  Chinese  proprietor  of  the  opium  joint. 

Containing  the  utmost  realism,  as  to  scenes,  in  particular  the 
Chinatown  street  setting,  and  the  usual  clear  and  consistent  Lasky 
photography  offsetting  the  strong  story,  ""The  Secret  Sin'"  may 
well  rank  as  a  most  praiseworthy  feature. 

•  THE  MENACE  OF  THE  MUTF' 

Pathe-Gold  Rooster — Five  Reels) 
REVIEWED   BY  PETER  MILNE 

A GOOD  detective  picture  relies  for  much  of  its  suspense  on 
the  placement  of  the  scenes.  Instead  of  following  in  ra- 
tional sequence,  some  are  withheld  until  the  time  comes  to  clear 
the  mystery,  thus  by  their  absence  creating  a  mystery  for  the  de- 
tective to  expend  his  efforts  upon.  "The  Menace  of  the  Mute" 
derives  much  of  ::s  mystifying  suspense  from  this  arrangement 
of  scenes,  althougi:  Arnold  Daly  adds  largely  to  the  interest  by 
his  brilliant  powers  of  detection,  contributed  by  the  author,  John 
T.  Mclntyre, 

Arnold  Daly  as  Ashtoa  Kirk,  criminal  investigator,  is  more 


than  a  mere  figurehead.  He  carries  the  part  with  dominating 
actions.  He  is  not  limited  to  make  discoveries  that  are  obvious 
to  the  spectator.  By  skill  and  cunning  he  unravels  the  murder 
mystery  in  a  logical  yet  unsuspected  way.  Mr.  Daly  acts  the 
investigator  down  to  the  last  detail— he  makes  one  forget  that  he 
is  merely  playing  the  part. 

The  mystery  of  the  murder  is  profound.  Suspicion  is  divided 
between  two  parties,  but  even  after  the  onlooker  is  sure  of  the 
guilty  man,  the  interest  remains  at  an  unordinary  height.  The 
climax,  reached  through  a  series  of  suspended  moments,  catches 


MORRIS  DECLARES  HIS  INNOCENCE 

the  observer  at  just  the  right  time  and  bestows  upon  the  story 
an  ending  of  great  power. 

The  supporting  cast,  particularly  Sheldon  Lewis  as  the  ugly  old 
inventor,  is  continually  alive  to  its  responsibilities.  For  the  most 
part  the  picture  is  purely  narrative  and  no  great  scenes  demand- 
ing histrionic  ability  of  the  emotional  sort  are  introduced,  but 
when  they  are.  it  is  pleasing  to  note,  that  the  cast  is  capable  of 
handling  them. 

The  settings  are  entirely  appropriate  throughout  the  five  reels, 
while  the  photography  is  pleasantly  clear.  All  in  all,  "The  Menace 
of  the  Mute"'  is  an  excellent  detective  picture.  Those  who  desire 
a  strong,  well-produced  picture  of  this  sort,  need  not  hesitate  in 
procuring  it. 


"THE  YANKEE  GIRL" 

(Morosco-Paramount — Five  Reels^ 
REVIEWED  BY  HARVEY  F.  THEW 

IX  the  solitude  of  one"s  own  particular  standing-room  on  Broad- 
way, one  is  forced  to  admit  that  musical  comedy  plots  are  no 
ti-.ore  tlian  their  name  implies.  Divested  of  their  orchestras, 
"songs."'  dances,  seltzer  siphons,  and  the  waiter's  comedy  lines, 
the  thread  of  the  story  looks  like  a  terrible  misfortune  in  a  rope 
factory :  dressed  properly,  it  is  a  delight  to  several  of  the  senses, 
but  naked  it  is  a  poor,  aimless  thing. 

It  has  been  the  Morosco  task  to  dress  such  a  plot  in  something 
beside  the  music,  wardrobe  and  repartee  of  the  spoken  stage,  so 
as  to  prevent  its  being  arrested  as  a  vagrant,  and  stupendous  as 
tb.e  task  has  been,  a  really  creditable  result  has  been  attained.  The 
director,  impressed  by  the  fact  that  Blanche  Ring  is  at  her  best 
when  hiding  behind  a  smile,  has  kept  her  smiling  almost  all  the 
time ;  the  locations  have  been  carefully  chosen  with  an  eye  to 
preserving  the  illusion  of  South  American  scenes,  and  the  camera 
has  been  so  well  placed  as  to  accentuate  the  picture  values  of 
these  scenes.  Xot  only  logical  are  most  of  the  scenes,  but  they 
are  striking,  and  dramatic,  within  the  limitations  of  the  script. 
Especially  attractive  are  the  views  of  the  yacht  both  from  shore 
and  from  its  own  deck,  and  the  action  is  kept  on  the  jump 
continually. 

Add  to  these  some  excellent  characterizations,  and  there  is  a 
picture  which  will  have  a  drawing  power  among  many  classes, 
especially  when  the  names  of  Blanche  Ring  and  one  of  her  Broad- 
way successes  stand  sponsor  for  it.    As  for  the  comedy :  there  are 


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several  good  comedy  iituations,  but  the  comedy  "business"  is  a 
trifle  clumsy,  and  hardly  adapted  to  make  grown-ups  laugh. 

The  story  revolves  about  a  race  for  the  option  on  a  South 
American  copper  mine  between  rival  capitalists,  one  of  whom  has 
bought  up  the  president  of  the  little  republic.  Through  the  in- 
genuity of  his  daughter,  the  other  man  wins.    As  President  Cas- 


"SMALLPOX!" 


troba,  Herbert  Standing  has  presented  an  excellent  character, 
and  capable  work  distinguishes  Forrest  Stanley,  Howard  Davies, 
Harry  Fisher,  Jr..  Robert  Dunbar,  Joe  Ray,  Bonita  Darling  and 
Syd  de  Grey,  who  are  aUo  in  the  cast. 

•THEIR  SINFUL  INFLUENCE" 

fSelig — Three  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  WILLIAM  C.  ZSTY  2nd 

THOSE  who  know  the  rudiments  of  drawing-room  etiquette 
often  smile  at  the  social  awkwardness  displayed  on  the  screen 
— and  their  mirth  is  justiried.  For  once  the  ultra-fastidious  will 
be  silenced,  for  in  the  drama,  "Their  Sinful  Influence,"  near  every 
detail  of  the  social  functions  pictured  is  correct.  Of  course  there 
is  the  i:sual  sartorial  slip  of  combining  a  black  tie  with  a  dress 
suit,  but  that  minor  oversight  is  lost  in  the  wonder  of  seeing  real 
engraved   invitatirn?   v.-   iijrmal   affairs    (instead  of  perfunctory 


THE  BABYLONIAN  MARRIAGE  MART 


phone  messages)  and  the  observing  of  many  other  conventions, 
trivial  in  themselves,  yet  highly  important  in  making  a  society 
play  convincing. 

This  adequateness  of  detail,  the  elaborateness  of  the  settings  and 
the  calibre  of  Bessie  Eyton's  acting  demand  a  high  rating  for 
fhis  three-reeier. 

Rose  Carr.  the  dav.gluer  of  Dr.  Carr,  rector  of  a  fashionable 


church,  is  engaged  to  Bright,  a  young  college  professor.  Two 
women  are  fighting  for  the  social  leadership  of  the  circus  set, 
vying  with  each  other  in  giving  weird  entertainments.  Against 
her  father's  will,  Rose  goes  to  these  affairs,  and  becomes  entangled 
with  Earl  Bayley,  a  wealthy  ne'er-do-well.  Bright  is  disgusted  at 
her  behavior,  and  brakes  off  the  engagement.  Dr.  Carr  decides  to 
investigate  conditions,  and  arrives  at  a  Bacchanalian  spectacle  just 
in  time  to  prevent  the  debauching  of  his  daughter. 

The  following  Sunday  the  infuriated  minister  preaches  a  scathing 
sermon,  denouncing  the  degradation  of  some  of  his  congregation, 
and  thanking  God  for  the  salvation  of  his  daughter. 

Bessie  Eyton  has  in  her  support  Richard  Morris,  Lillian  Hay- 
ward,  Edward  J.  Piel,  Edwin  Wallock,  Virginia  Kirtley  and  Louise 
Southern.  A.  G.  Isherwood  and  William  H.  Lippert  collaborated 
on  the  story,  which  Lloyd  B.  Carleton  produced. 

"BOUGHT" 

(Shubert-World  Film— Five  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  PETER  MILNE 

f'D OUGHT"  is  a  melodrama  with  a  poetic  hero.  The  hero  often 
■L'  speaks  through  the  medium  of  subtitles.  He  soars  to  ideal- 
istic heights  that  sometimes  strike  one  as  being  a  little  forced  when 
read  on  the  celluloid.  The  conduct  of  this  hero  corresponds 
strikingly  with  his  poetic  speeches.  Frederick  Lewis,  who  plays 
the  part,  acts  with  considerable  display  of  emotionalism. 

Aside  from  the  unintimate  atmosphere  created  by  Mr.  Lewis 
and  his  speeches,  "Bought"  presents  a  nicely  balanced  melodramatic 
story.  It  contains  scenes  and  situations  that  will  touch  the  heart 
of  the  melodrama-loving  person,  if  that  person  is  open  to  be 


HELEN    RESTRAINS   FRAMBERS   FROM   FURTHER  VIOLENCE 


convinced  by  a  rabid  plot.  Its  incidents  are  brought  out  in  a 
manner  that  will  not  fail  to  excite  the  sympathies.  Lawrence 
IMcClosky,  the  author,  has  built  his  scenario  along  effectively  con- 
ventional lines. 

Frambers  is  a  would-be  writer.  In  every  mail  arrives  a  returned 
manuscript.  So  when  he  receives  an  offer  to  marry  a  girl  and 
save  her  honor  for  a  cash  consideration  he  accepts.  The  girl 
despises  him  despite  his  noble  act.  Frambers  materially  helps  her 
father  in  business.  Then  he  becomes  tired  of  it  all  and  quits.  But 
he  returns  to  save  his  father-in-law  from  ruin  and  to  discover  that 
the  girl  really  loves  him. 

Ethel  Gray  Terry  as  Helen,  the  girl,  handles  her  larger  scenes  in 
a  most  creditable  style  and  the  rest  of  the  cast  furnishes  support 
that  is  acceptable  if  not  at  all  times  brilliant. 

Barry  O'Neill,  who  produced  the  subject,  has  done  his  share  of 
the  work  well.    The  material  dealt  with  is  effecti\ely  picturized. 


FIDELITY  ORGANIZED  IN  DETROIT  FOR  FEATURES 

THE  Fidelity  Motion  Picture  Company,  of  Detroit,  Mich., 
announces  its  intentions  to  produce  feature  films.  Offices 
have  been  opened  in  the  Hammond  building.  Frank  W.  Packer, 
president  of  the  company,  is  a  former  theatrical  man. 

H.  E.  Miller,  of  New  York,  is  vice-president  and  E.  E.  Englehart 
is  secretary,  treasurer  and  business  manager.  Harriet  E.  Mills, 
a  vaudeville  actress,  is  one  of  the  largest  stockholders. 


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"THE  UPSTART" 

(Gold  Seal-Univers.;I— Three  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  PEIER  MILNE 

THIS  is  the  first  picture  in  wliich  Stella  Razetto  appears  to  be 
released  un  the  Universal  daily  program,  and  as  such  is 
worthy  of  considerable  notice,  although  the  even  excellence  of 
the  vehic'e  is  chiefly  responsible  for  the  picture's  position  among 
the  features  of  the  week.  Miss  Razetto  lends  to  the  title  role  a 
prettiness  and  charm  that  can  not  be  denied,  but  we  can  also 
reverse  the  order  and  say  that  the  role  is  quite  worthy  the  talents 
of  Miss  Razetto. 

The  scenario  is  one  of  Har\ey  Gates'  original  works.  Coinci- 
dence plays  a  prominent  part  in  the  workings  of  the  story,  but 
points  are  not  stretched  and  the  picture  is  always  convincing. 
Mr.  Gates  has  constructed  his  scenario  in  a  pleasant  and  smooth 
style ;  there  are  no  great  leaps  from  one  incident  to  another, 
while  there  is  little  of  the  unbelievalile  touch  of  melodrama. 

The  direction  by  Edward  LeSaint  is  entirely  adequate.  We 
draw  attention  in  particular  to  the  wonderful  air  of  realism  that 
Mr.  LeSaint  has  obtained  in  his  rain  scenes.  With  appropriate 
tinting  the  picture  will  certainly  present  a  satisfactory  and  finished 
appearance  in  regard  to  all  the  small  and  large  details. 

We  will  not  give  even  a  mere  outline  of  the  story,  but  suffice 
it  to  say  that  the  qualities  of  romance  dominate  the  three  reels. 


THE  MISTAKEN  IDENTITIES  ARE  CLEARED 

However,  the  additional  characters  are  clearly  drawn,  and  the 
sub-plot  of  the  picture  is  as  effective  and  exciting  as  the  story 
proper  is  interesting  and  pretty. 

Jay  Belasco,  appearing  opposite  Miss  Razetto,  is  a  fitting  type 
for  the  role,  while  others  who  contribute  good  work  to  the  picture 
are  Laura  Oakley,  ^Mark  Fenton,  Helen  Wright  and  Charles  L\ke. 


"THE  DESTROYER" 

(Essanay — Three  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  WILLIAM  C.  £STY  Jnd 

AXO\'EL,  extraordinary  plot  covers  a  multitude  of  sins  in  a 
photoplay,  especially  in  these  days  of  cruelly  overworked 
film  themes.  The  plot  of  the  picture  under  discussion  was  daringly 
conceived,  and  fearlessly,  yet  delicately,  developed.  The  situations 
created  afford  unlimited  possibilities  for  emotional  acting,  and 
while  the  cast  does  not  utilize  all  these  opportunities,  yet  their 


performance  is  above  the  average.  Nell  Craig  regisrers  iV.c  alter- 
nate joy,  horror,  and  despair  of  her  situation  very  effectively. 

Gordon  Rockwell  (John  A.  Lorenz),  a  physician,  and  his  friend 
Kenneth  Randall  (Edmund  F".  Cobb)  l)oth  fall  in  love  with  Frances 
Hurnham  (  Xell  Craig).  She  accepts  Randall's  proposal,  but  be- 
fore marrying,  Randall  asks  Rockwell  to  give  him  a  physical 
examination.  In  the  blood  test,  the  doctor's  assistant  accidentally 
substitutes  infected  blood  for  that  of  Randall.  In  perfect  ignor- 
ance of  the  error,  Rockwell  breaks  the  news  to  Randall,  who  im- 
mediately leaves  the  country.    Later,  the  physician  discovers  the 


i 


RANDALL  BREAKS  THE  NEWS  TO  FRANCES 

mistake,  but  he  keeps  it  secret,  and  a  year  later  he  marries  Frances 
Burnliam.  As  time  goes  on,  his  conscience  gets  the  better  of  him. 
and  after  writing  a  note  to  Randall  explaining  the  mistake,  he 
poisons  himself.  Randall  returns  in  time  to  forgive  him,  and  is 
reunited  with  the  girl  he  madly  loves. 

Edward  T.  Lowe,  Jr.,  wrote  the  story,  and  Lawrence  Windon 
produced  it. 


"THE  SEVENTH  NOON" 

(Mutual  Masterpicture — Five  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  HARVEY  F.  THEW 

ORIGIXALITY  of  plot,  and  direct,  forceful  treatment,  mark  this 
picture  as  one  worth  while.  It  has  been  picturized  from  the 
novel  of  the  same  name  by  Frederick  Orin  Bartlett,  and  hence  has 
a  real  story  to  tell,  presented  by  a  cast  capable  of  telling  it.  A 
certain  amount  of  unnecessary  matter  has  been  allowed  to  seep  into 
the  scenario,  but  it  is  not  burdensome,  and  does  not  detract  from 
the  line  of  the  main  theme. 

The  story  is  that  of  a  young  lawyer,  wearied  by  his  efforts  to 
aid  the  poor,  who  takes  a  new  poison  which  a  chemist  has  demon- 
strated will  do  its  work  in  just  seven  days.  He  decides  to  scale 
the  heights  of  lu.xury  during  these  seven  days,  and  in  doing  so  he 
falls  in  love,  risks  his  life,  which  he  knows  to  be  worthless,  for 
the  girl's  sake,  and  then  bitterly  regrets  having  marked  out  his 


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own  doom.  After  making  an  all  around  hero  of  himself,  he  finds 
that  the  poison  is  a  failure,  and  he  may  still  live. 

The  counterplot  adds  greatly  to  the  dramatic  values.  In  this 
connection  the  work  of  George  Le  Guere  is  especially  strong  and 
capable.  Ernest  Glendenning  is  also  well  cast,  as  the  lawyer,  and 
Winifred  Kingston  as  the  girl.  Others  in  the  cast  are  Everett  But- 
terfield.  W.  T.  Clark,  A.  J.  Robinson,  Julia  Blane  and  Glide  Leary. 


"THE  BETTER  WOMAN" 

(Triumph-Equitable — Five  Reels) 
REVIEWED  BY  OSCAR  COOPER 

GOOD  sets,  pleasing  photography  and  acceptable  acting  stand 
in  sharp  contrast  to  the  plot  in  this  subject. 
The  story  was  written  by  Richard  Campbell,  and  concerns  an 
imdisciplined  girl  of  the  West  who  falls  in  love  with  a  long 
civil  engineer,  intercepts  a  letter  from  the  engineer's  fiancee  back 
East,  and  weds  him.  The  letter,  it  should  be  said,  was  intended 
to  advise  the  young  man  that  a  newspaper,  through  a  mistake, 
reported  the  fiancee's  marriage  to  another,  when  in  reality  it  was 
her  sister  who  had  been  led  to  the  altar.  The  deception  eventually 
comes  to  light,  and  the  engineer,  learning  to  love  his  wife,  for- 
gives her. 


AT  THE  CHARITY  BENEFIT 

Singularly  enough,  the  director  this  time,  and  not  the  scenario 
writer,  is  apparently  responsible  for  the  slenderness  of  the  plot. 
The  typewritten  synopsis  furnished  the  reviewer  before  the  show- 
ing called  for  several  scenes  of  strength  which  did  not  appear  in 
the  finished  picture.  The  most  striking  of  these  was  a  labor  riot, 
culminating  in  an  explosion,  affording  opportunity  for  the  girl  who 
had  perpetrated  the  deception  to  show  real  bravery,  thus  bringing 
her  husband  to  a  realization  that  she  was  indeed  "The  Better 
Woman,"  especially  as  the  girl  of  the  East  proved  a  coward. 

Frankly,  we  believe  the  story  as  outlined  in  the  synopsis  would 
have  made  an  offering  much  stronger  than  that  presented  on  the 
screen— in  contrast  of  characters,  as  well  as  in  many  points  of 
action.  Because  the  reviewer  read  the  synopsis  before  he  saw  the 
picture,  it  was  at  times  difficult  for  him  to  realize  that  the  two 
stories  bore  a  vital  kinship  to  each  other,  except  in  mere  external 
appearance.  We  should  like  to  see  the  same  players,  with  the 
same  excellence  of  setting,  photography,  and  direction,  in  the  ver- 
sion of  the  story  as  given  in  the  synopsis. 

Insofar  as  this  theme  permits,  the  players  realize  their  possi- 
bilities quite  well.  Leonore  Ulrich,  in  the  character  of  the  young 
deceiver,  screens  readily,  and  sheds  beauty  over  more  than  one 
improbable  scene.  Lowell  Sherman,  the  male  lead,  has  good 
presence,  and  is  convincing  through  most  of  the  action.  Edith 
Thornton,  Ben  Graham,  Charles  Hutchison  and  Will  Browning 
are  also  in  the  cast. 

Outdoor  scenery 's  used  to  good  advantage.  A  novelty  is  offered 
in  one  scene  showing  a  large  company  of  guests  assembled  to 
witness  tableaux  given  for  the  benefit  of  charity. 

Joseph  A.  Golden  was  the  director. 


AFTER  THE  MINNOW 
COMES  THE  WHALE 


AND 


JUST  OUT 
OF  COLLEGE 


IS  A  "WHALE  OF  A  PICTURE' 


PLAYED  TWO  SOLID  WEEKS 
IN  THE  HEART  OF  CHICAGO 
AT  25-50  &$  LOO  Prices. 

IS  NOW  PLAYING  THE  BET- 
TER HOUSES  THROUGHOUT 
THE  FIVE  CENTRAL  STATES. 

EXHIBITORS  ARE  ALREADY 
REPEATING  ON  IT. 

Also  have  an  attractive  array  of 
four  and  five  reelers  well  worth 
your  while  to  investigate. 

DONT  FORGET— 'THE  SPOIL- 
ERS." We  have  six  prints  on  this 
"old  reliable" ;  second  only  to  THE 
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A  Championship 
Baseball  Game 
on  Christmas  Day! 


Ever  hear  of  such  a  thing"?  Well,  that's 
the  iiriusual  treat  the  exhibitor  can  give 
to  his  patrons  with 

World's  Scries  Pictures 

So  complete  in  detail  and  so  wonderfully 
realistic  are  they,  that  when  the  snow 
outside  is  two  feet  deep,  the  fan  in  the 
audience  will  be  up  on  his  toes,  uncon- 
sciously perspiring"  and  rooting"  for  his 
fa\'orite  team. 

Tlic  World's  Series  Set 

In  three  or  live  reel  editions. 
Will  Draw  Crowded  Houses  All  W^inter. 

If  You  Have  No  Objection  to  Alaking 
Money,  Wire  at  once  for  terms  on  open 
territory. 


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Company 

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"THE  WASP  ' 

(American-Flying  A — Tw  c  Ktelt., 
REVIEWED  BY  WILLIAM  C.  EST¥  2na 

VIVIAN  RICH,  playing  the  title  role  of  this  piece,  is  called  upon 
to  plagiarize  from  the  lives  of  Becky  Sharp,  Rosalind,  Jane 
Addams,  and  the  girls  of  Fagin's  school.  To  be  more  explicit, 
she  has  an  unhappy  life  in  the  girls'  school  she  attends,  is  unjustly 
accused  of  stealing,  disguises  herself  as  a  man,  and  is  a  pickpocket 
and  burglar,  until  her  love  for  a  wealthy  man  causes  her  to  become 


THE  WASP  IS  WRONGLY  ACCUSED 


a  charity  worker.  Add  to  this  chain  of  events  her  later  marriage 
to  the  right  man,  throw  in  a  few  complications,  and  you  have  the 
story  of  "The  \\"asp." 

Miss  Rich"s  kaleidoscopic  part  is  so  acted  that  it  carries  con- 
Aiction,  and  she  manages  to  soften  the  melodramatic  elements  of 
the  play  to  something  very  close  to  realism. 

The  play  is  interesting  throughout,  and  the  pathos  is  well 
sustained. 

Walter  Spencer,  Roy  Stewart  and  Hugh  Bennett,  the  trio  support- 
ing Miss  Rich,  do  their  share  in  making  this  release  worth  while. 
The  directing  was  in  the  hands  of  Reeves  Eason. 


HAYES  GETS  FIRST  RIGHTS  TO  TRIANGLE  PLAYS  IN 
PHILADELPHIA 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Philadelphia,  Oct.  26. 

NJ.  HAYES,  proprietor  of  the  Great  Northern,  at  Broad  and 
•    Erie  avenue,  has  made  a  scoop  in  being  the  first  exhibitor 
in  Philadelphia  to  capture  the  new  Triangle  program. 

November  8  is  the  first  release  of  the  Triangle  to  the  general 
exhibitor.  On  that  date  Mr.  Hayes  will  start  the  Triangle  pic- 
tures, having  secured  exclusive  rights  to  a  large  territorj-  in  his 
immediate  section. 

At  present  the  Great  Northern  will  be  the  only  theatre  in  all 
the  northern  section  of  Philadelphia  showing  the  production  of 
the  Triangle  Film  Corporation. 

The  Great  Northern  was  formerly  under  the  Stanley  manage- 
ment and  ran  vaudeville  in  connection  with  pictures,  but  Mr. 
Hayes  has  been  running  it  this  season  as  a  straight  picture  house. 
With  a  symphony  orchestra  of  ten  pieces,  led  by  a  fine  musician, 
and  all  the  artistic  Triangle  touches  of  ushers'  costumes  and 
attractive  programs  included  in  the  scope  of  the  plans  for  the 
Great  Northern  under  the  new  regime,  the  opening  will  be  of 
much  interest. 

There  are  1,100  seats  in  the  theatre.  The  prices  that  will  prevail 
are  fifteen  and  twenty-five  cents. 

Seats  will  be  sold  at  advanced  sales,  a  new  departure,  and  there 
will  be  three  performances  daily — a  matinee  and  two  night 
performances. 

The  program  will  be  changed  twice  a  week.  Two  Triangle 
plays,  a  drama  and  a  comedy,  eight  reel;  in  all,  will  be  given  at 
each  performance. 


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GENERAL  FILM  PROGRAM 


"The  Musketeers  of  Pig  Alley."  (Hiograph. 
Fri.,  Nov.  5.) — This  is  a  Grittitli  re-issue,  in  which 
Lillian  Gish  is  featured.  The  story  revolves 
around  a  battle  between  jangs  ot  gunmen,  the 
leader  of  one  of  which  attempts  in  vain  to  force 
his  attentions  on  the  girl.  Her  sweetheart,  a 
voung  musician  returning  successful,  is  black- 
jacked and  robbed  at  the  door  of  her  tenement  by 
the  gangster.  The  girl,  confronted  by  the  accused 
gangster,  refuses  to  identify  him.  and  in  gratitude 
he  returns  the  stolen  money.  Lionel  Barrymore, 
Robert  Harron,  Harry  Carey,  Walter  Miller,  El- 
mer Booth,  Jack  Dillon,  Alfred  Paget  and  W.  C. 
Kobinson  are  also  in  the  cast. 


"Dora  Thorne."    (Biograph.   Four  reels.  Wed., 

Nov.  3.) — Reviewed  elsewhere  in  this  issue. 


"Fifty-Fifty."  (Essanay.  Three  reels.  Mon. 
JCov.  1.) — Will  be  reviewed  ne.xt  week. 


"Despair."  (Essanay.  Three  reels.  Tues., 
Nov.   2.) — Nat  yet  shown  for  review. 


and  goes  into  the  mountains.  Shortly  after,  a 
boy  is  born  to  her.  Five  years  later  the  boy  is 
kidnapped  by  his  father,  John  Curtis.  May  be- 
comes a  school  teacher,  and  is  idolized  by  the 
mountain  people.  After  thirty  years  in  this  place 
she  becomes  ill,  and  only  the  skill  of  a  famous 
surgeon  can  save  her.  The  surgeon  arrives,  and 
when  he  looks  into  the  face  of  the  dying  woman, 
she  recognizes  him  as  her  son.  The  operation 
is  successful,  and  May  lives  to  be  happy  with  her 
lost  son.  Xell  Curtis  and  Hugh  E.  Thompson 
play  the  leads,  supported  by  Thomas  Commer- 
ford  and  John  Cossar.  Lawrence  Windom  di- 
rected. 


"The  Inevitable  Penalty."  (Lubin.  Mon.,  Oct. 
25.) — A  fairly  good  drama  by  Daniel  Ellis,  con- 
taining a  considerable  amount  of  suspense.  An 
old  theme  of  the  woman's  hopeless  faith  in  an 
unworthy  man  furnishes  an  acceptable  story. 
Octavia  Handworth,  Henry  Wilson  and  Louis 
Mortelle  are  the  leads. 


"Playing  in  Tough  Luck."  (Lubin.  Tues., 
Oct.  26.) — A  liumorous  vehicle  by  Daniel  Ellis 
has  been  made  into  a  typical  David  Don  picture 
by  that  actor  and  his  associates.  The  first  part 
of  the  reel  is  merely  full  of  grotesque  actions,  the 
real  laughs  resulting  from  the  closing  scenes. 


MLTLAL  PROGRAM 


"The  Wasp."  (American-Flying  A.  Two  reels. 
Mon.,  Nov.  1.) — Reviewed  at  length  elsewhere  in 
this  issue. 


"One  to  the  Minute."  (Beauty.  Tues.,  Nov. 
2.) — A  good  comedy-drama,  adequately  produced. 
Neva  Gerber  has  one  of  the  ingenue  parts  she  does 
so  well.  Dick  hasn't  a  chance  for  Gladys'  hand 
when  an  East  Indian  rajah  becomes  a  suitor.  Dis- 
gusted, Dick  seeks  solace  at  his  club,  and  repeats 
the  time-honored  saying,  "There's  a  fool  born 
every  minute."  A  stranger  challenges  the  remark, 
and  bets  a  cool  hundred  that  Dick  cannot  steal 
jewelry  from  the  club  members.  The  amateur 
"dip"  collects  a  lot  of  valuables  to  prove  the 
gullibility  of  human  kind,  but  the  stranger  disap- 
pears with  the  jewelry  and  the  wagers.  A  peculiar 
gesture  of  the  rajah's  causes  Dick  to  believe  him 
none  other  than  the  smooth  stranger,  and  after 
verifying  this  identification,  he  wins  $2,000  reward 
and  Gladys'  hand.  In  the  cast  with  Neva.  Cierber 
are  Frank  Borzage,  Wm.  Carroll,  Rae  Berger  and 
Lucille  Ward.    John  Dillon  was  the  producer. 


"The  Fable  of  the  Escape  of  Arthur  and  the 
Salvation  of  Herbert."  (Essanay.  Wed.,  Nov.  3.) 
— The  sub-titles  are  more  amusing  than  the  act- 
ting  in  this  George  Ade  fable  that  teaches  "As 
the  Father  Is  Bent,  the  Child  Is  Inclined."  Ar- 
thur's matrimonial  side-kick  makes  home  an  Ex- 
periment Station  for  her  prophylactic  health 
Clinics,  and  Arthur  is  the  Goat,  until  Herbert 
arrives.  In  spite  of  Mothers  peerless  System, 
little  Herbie  joins  a  gang,  and  shies  bricks  at  a 
teamster's  child.  Charles  J.  Stine  and  Camille 
D'.Arcy  form  the  Hymeneal  Team.  Richard  F. 
Baker   was  the  director 


"The  Night  That  Sophie  Graduated."  (Es- 
sanay. Thurs.,  Nov  4.) — This  is  a  slapstick 
■comedy  that  furnishes  an  ordinary  amount  of 
amusement.  On  the  night  that  Sophie  is  to  grad- 
uate. Slippery  Slim  and  Mustang  Pete  make  a 
mad  rush  to  escort  her  to  the  e.xercises.  Slim  is 
successful,  but  when  he  and  his  girl  get  to  the 
railroad  crossing,  their  horse  refuses  to  move. 
Pete  ties  the  horse  to  .i  train.  When  the  train 
starts.  Slim  is  thrown  out.  but  Sophie  is  hauled 
along  for  miles.  Slim  finally  rescues  the  much- 
jolted  girl,  and  takes  her  to  the  graduation  cere- 
mony. Pete  is  still  on  the  job,  and  sets  the  build- 
ing on  fire.  The  players  are:  Margaret  Joslin, 
Victor  Potel,  Harry  Todd  and  Robert  McKenzie. 


"Broncho  Billy's  Mexican  Wife."  (Essanay. 
Fri.,  Nov.  5.) — An  unambitious  attempt  at  melo- 
drama that  is  only  occasionally  interesting. 
Broncho  Billy's  Mexican  wife  falls  in  love  with 
a  man  of  her  own  race.  Fearing  to  elope,  they 
plan  to  get  Billy  out  of  the  way.  She  stabs  her- 
self and  then  informs  the  sheriff  that  her  husband 
did  it.  Billy  is  arrested  and  thrown  into  jail, 
while  his  wife  entertains  her  affinity  in  her  own 
home.  The  Mexican's  sweetlieart,  mad  with 
jealousy,  stabs  them  both.  Meanwhile  Billy  has 
escaped,  and  returning  home,  linds  the  pair  mor- 
tally wounded.  He  places  the  hand  of  his  dying 
wife  in  the  hand  of  the  Mexican,  forgiving  every- 
thing. Supporting  G.  M.  Anderson  are  Edria 
Robinson,  Lee  Willard  and  Leona  Anderson. 


"On  the  Little  Mill  Race."  (Essanay.  Two 
reels.  Sat.,  Nov.  6.) — This  a  fairly  conven- 
tional, but  interesting  drama,  well  acted.  May 
Curtis,    finding  licr   liii<;hT>.-i    -.mtrue,   leaves  him 


"The_  Man  of  God."  (Lubin.  Two  reels.  Wed., 
Oct.  27.) — Reviewed  at  length  elsewhere  in  this 
issue. 


"The  Strange  Unknown."  (Lubin.  Three 
reels.  Thurs.,  Oct.  28.) — Reviewed  at  length 
elsewhere  in  this  issue. 


"The  Wonder  Cloth."  (Lubin.  Fri.,  Oct.  29.) — 
A  most  intense  drama  concerning  a  bullet-proof 
invention.  The  love  interest- is  well  brought  out, 
while  the  suspense  in  the  picture  is  of  the  great- 
est kind.  L.  C.  Shumway,  Adda  Gleason  and 
Melvin  Mayo  are  the  principals,  all  of  whom 
render  very  good  ■  performances. 


"His  Bodyguard."  (Lubin.  Sat.,  Oct.  30.)  — 
Billie  Reeves  as  a  wayward  husband's  bodyguard 
beats  up  all  his  enemies,  but  when  he  comes  to 
his  raving  wife  it's  an  entirely  different  story. 
This,  by  Epes  Winthrop  Sargent,  is  like  many  of 
the  Billie  Reeves  subjects.  Its  humor  is  confined 
to  a  certain  class  that  appreciates  rough  and 
tumble  tactics. 


"The  Flashlight."  (Selig.  Two  reels.  Mon., 
Nov.  1.) — James  Oliver  Curwood  put  a  real  plot 
in  this  story  of  East  Indian  life.  Tense,  colorful, 
superbly  staged,  and  well  acted,  it  is  an  unusually 
attractive  picture.  Roscoe  Harding,  a  newspaper 
photographer  in  India,  is  invited  by  Prince  Chan 
to  take  pictures  of  his  harem.  While  in  the 
seraglio  lie  is  warned  by  a  captive  English  girl 
to  escape  quickly.  Aided  by  'Tarsus,  the  keeper 
of  the  elephants,  Harding  and  the  girl,  after 
several  thrilling  incidents,  make  their  getaway. 
Bessie  Eyton,  Edward  J.  Piel,  C.  C.  Holland  and 
Robert  Morris  interpret  the  principal  roles  with 
great  effectiveness. 


"Athletic  Ambitions."  (Selig.  Tues.,  Nov.  2.) 
— Not  yet   shown   for  review. 


"Their  Sinful  Influence."  (Selig.  Three  reels. 
Thurs.,  Nov.  4.) — Reviewed  at  length  elsewhere 
in   this   issue.  • 


"The  Lost  Messenger."  (Selig.  Sat.,  Nov.  6.) 
— Not  yet  shown  for  review. 


"On  Secret  Service."  (American-Flying  A. 
Fri.,  Nov.  5.) — A  few  more  subtitles  would  obviate 
the  occasional  misunderstanding  of  the  plot  of 
this  swiftly  moving  little  drama.  The  spectator  is 
never  more  than  a  few  seconds  behind  the  action, 
however. 

Frank  Ketchell,  a  young  bank  cashier,  is  in 
love  with  Nell  Bertram,  the  marshal's  daughter. 
James  Whitmore  comes  to  town,  representing  him- 
self to  be  a  secret  service  man  trying  to  locate  a 
gang  of  counterfeiters.  The  marshal  is  terrified, 
for  many  years  before,  he  himself  had  done  some 
counterfeiting  to  give  Nell  an  education.  He 
agrees  to  get  all  his  savings  from  the  bank,  so  that 
the  detective  may  look  for  spurious  notes.  Whit- 
more binds  and  gags  Bertram,  takes  the  money, 
and  persuading  Nell  to  elope  with  him,  leaves  the 
town.  Ketchell  discovers  the  father's  plight,  and 
giving  chase  to  the  fugitive,  captures  the  crook, 
Bertram's  money,  a  large  reward,  and  Nell's  love. 

Winnifred  Greenwood,  Edward  Coxen.  George 
Field,  and  Charles  Newton  form  the  cast.  The 
players  were  directed  by  Charles  Bartlett. 


"The  Trail  of  the  Serpent."  (Mustang.  Two 
reels.  Fri.,  Nov.  5.) — E.  Forrest  Taylor,  Helene 
Rosaon,  and  their  co-workers  accomplish  the  im- 
possible by  creating  sustained  interest  in  this 
conventional  combination  of  favorite  old  characters 
and  familiar  episodes. 

The  cowboy  hero  foils  the  gentlemanly  villain 
and  his  Mexican  assistant,  and  the  rich  mine  is 
saved  for  the  Eastern  heroine,  who  falls  in  love 
with  her  protector. 

Supporting  Taylor  and  Miss  Rosson  are  George 
Webb  and  Harry  Edmonton.  The  picture  was  well 
directed  by  Frank  Cooley. 


"Who's  Who."  (Cub.  Fri.,  Nov.  S.)— George 
Ovey  as  Jerry  has  the  charming  assistance  of  the 
Newton  twins  in  an  especially  laughable  situation. 
One  of  them  is  Jerry's  sweetheart,  and  the  other 
is  a  bride,  and  as  they  are  quartered  in  the  same 
hotel,  Jerry  immediately  becomes  involved  with 
the  six-foot  bridegroom,  as  well  as  the  father  of 
his  sweetheart. 

The  matter  is  straightened  out  when  the  mother 
appears  and  recognizes  in  the  bride  her  other 
daughter,  who  has  been  separated  from  her  since 
childhood. 


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"Billy  Van  Deusen's  Campaign."  (Beauty. 
Sat.,  Xov.  6.) — An  amusing  comedy,  somewhat 
off  the  beaten  track.  Billy  Van  Deusen  (Jno. 
Steppling),  a  wealthy  clubman,  and  Tames  O'Brien 
(John  Sheehan),  are  both  candidates  for  mayor, 
and  for  the  hand  of  Helen  Reeves  (Carol  Hal- 
loway).  When  Helen  says  she  will  marry  the 
next  mayor,  both  make  whiilwind  campaigns. 
Billy  promises  every  woman  who  votes  for  him  a 
parasol,  but  Jimmy  announces  that  all  who  vote 
tor  him  are  invited  to  an  outing  in  a  nearby 
park.  Jimmy's  offer  pulls  the  votes  and  the  mayor- 
elect  and  Helen  go  to  the  slums  to  see  Billy,  who 
is  having  a  strenuous  time  caring  for  the  children 
of  absent  suffragized  mothers. 

Besides  those  already  mentioned,  the  cast  in- 
cludes Bessie  Banks  and  Rae  Berger.  The  pro- 
ducer was  Archer  MacMackin. 


This  has  some  good  comedy  in  it,  but  there  are 
limes  when  the  fun  is  rather  low. 


PAT  HE  EXCHAyCE  /\C. 


"The  Hew  Adventures  of  J.  Rufus  Wallingford." 
Xumber  Five.  (Pathe  Two  reels,  ilon^.  Xov.  1.) 
— This  instalment,  entitled  "The  Lilac  Splash,"  is 
rich  in  humorous  and  cleverly  evolved  situations. 
Burr  Mcintosh  and  Max  Figman  as  Wallingford 
and  Blackie  Daw  continue  to  render  most  charac- 
teristic work  in  these  two  leading  parts.  Here 
they  neatly  succeed  in  relieving  Perigourd,  a  pol- 
ished crook,  of  money  that  he  unfairly  procured 
from  the  lather  of  the  Warden  girls.  By  equally 
unfair  methods  do  they  win  it  back,  but  the  meth- 
ods are  likewise  humorous  to  the  extreme. 


"Neal  of  the  Navy."  Xumber  Ten.  (Pathe- 
Panama.  Two  reels.  Thurs..  Xov.  4.) — In  this 
■chapter,  separately  called  "The  Rolling  Terror," 
Annette  and  the  rest  of  the  party  land  on  a  south- 
em  island  which  is  just  at  that  time  under  the 
ravages  of  malaxia.  Annette  becomes  a  nurse  and 
so  endears  herself  to  the  natives  that  they  worship 
her.  In  the  meantime  the  villains  have  planned 
to  secure  the  plans  of  the  Lost  Isle,  and  failing  to 
•do  so  by  mere  threats,  they  cast  Annette  and  Xeal 
in  a  swamp  infested  with  the  malaria-bearing  mos- 
<luitoes.  Fortunately  enough  the  two  lovers  are 
able  to  resist  the  insects  by  applying  crude  oil.  and 
later  they  are  rescued  bv  tiie  marines. 


UNIVERSAL  PROGRAM 


"The  Long  Chance."  (Broadway  L'niversal 
Feature.  Six  reels.  Mon..  X'ov.  1.) — Reviewed 
■at  length  elsewhere  in  this  issue. 


"A  Circumstantial  Scandal."  (Xestor.  Mon., 
Nov.  1.) — Two  married  couples,  and  everyone  of 
"the  four  parties,  are  jealous  until  the  end  of  the 
-picture  arrives,  which  leaves  them  all  much  the 
T)etter  for  divers'  funny  experiences.  Xeal  Bums, 
Ray  Gallagher.  Billie  Rhodes  and  Corrine  Lesser 
are  the  principals  in  this  comedy,  which  measures 
-up  to  the  average  Xestor. 

"The  Measure  of  Leon  Dubray."  (Gold  Seal. 
Three  reels.  Tues.,  Nov.  2.) — This  production, 
■written  and  directed  by  Henry  Otto,  makes  a 
most  interesting  drama,  clearly  and  rapidly  de- 
"veloped  and  capped  with  a  climax  of  a  very  enter- 
taining sort.  The  work  of  Hobart  Henley  and 
Louella  Maxim  stands  out  in  a  well-balanced  cast. 


"When  Beauty  Butts  In."  (Imp.  Tues.,  Xov. 
-2.) — Here  Victor  Potel  becomes  wildly  enamoured 
of  a  number  of  pretty  girls,  clad  in  abbreviated 
Tjathing  suits.     Wifie,  however,  spoils  all  the  fun. 


"The  Idle  Rich."  (L-Ko.  Two  reels.  Wed., 
Xov.  3.) — Hubby  goes  out  to  flirt  and  receives 
a  terrible  setback  in  the  shape  of  a  black  eye 
from  a  beauteous  maiden.  Returning  to  his  wife's 
lawn  party  he  explains  this  stellar  decoration  by 
relating  a  heroic  story  in  which  he  played  the 
hero,  but  then  the  beauteous  maiden  turns  out 
to  be  the  guest  of  honor  at  the  reception  and 
Hubbv  and  everyone  else  gets  a  shock.  Harrj' 
Gribb'on  and  May  Emory  are  the  leads  in  this 
laughmaker,  which  contains  little  that  is  sug- 
gestive and  a  good  deal  that  is  funny. 

"The  White  Feather  Volunteer."  (Laemmle. 
Two  reels.  Thurs..  Xov.  4.) — A  war  play  differ- 
ing from  the  usual  run  of  such  dramas.  It  is 
based  on  a  custom  prevalent  in  England.  When 
an  able-bodied  man  refuses  to  enlist  he  is  sent 
a  white  feather  by  some  scornful  acquaintance. 
Rupert  Julian  produced  it  as  well  as  playing  the 
lead,  supported  by  Hazel  Buckam  and  Elsie  Jane 
Wilson.  The  offering  is  strong,  although  at 
times  the  director  has  failed  to  drive  home  an 
idea.  The  few-  battle  scenes  that  appear  are 
good. 

The  Powers  release  of  X'ov.  4  consists  of  a 
pictured  vaudeville  act  entitled  "The  Thinking 
Cockatoos, ''  showing  clever  antics  of  these  trained 
birds,  and  "Insect  Celebrities."  a  highly  inter- 
esting educational  compiled  by  Raymond  Ditmars. 

"The  Markswoman."  (l3ig  V.  Thurs.,  Xov. 
4.) — The  strong  feature  of  this  reel  is  the  beauti- 
ful X'orthwestern  scenery  and  the  exceptional 
photography  and  lighting.  The  story  is  rather 
conventional  both  in  character  of  plot  and  situa- 
tions. Jules,  a  half-breed,  steals  some  money 
belonging  to  the  keeper  of  the  post,  but  the  man's 
daughter  and  her  lover  pursue  him  and  finally 
regain  tlie  stolen  wealth.  Ed.  Sloman  and  Adele 
Lane  are  featured  in  this,  their  only  fault  being 
that  they  decidedly  betray  their  ignorance  of  north 
Canadian  customs  by  handling  their  canoes  in 
an  amateurish  fashion. 


janitress  of  an  office  building,  iliss  Howell  gets 
a  lot  of  farcial  fun  from  her  role,  creating  most 
of  the  laughs  in  the  picture. 


"The  Reward."  (Imp.  Three  reels.  Fri., 
X'ov.  S.") — This  is  a  melodrama  and  as  such  is 
not  worthy  of  the  amount  of  film  nor  the  histrionic 
efforts  spent  on  it.  The  story  will  interest  at 
times,  although  as  a  whole  it  can  bear  little  close 
inspection.  King  Baggot  is  featured,  while  ohers 
are  Edna  Hunter.  Harry  Spingler  and  Clara 
Beyers.     Henry  McRae  Webster  directed. 


"Father's  Helping  Hand."  (X'estor.  Fri.,  Xov. 
5.) — Through  an  error,  the  review  of  this  picture 
appeared  in  the  issue  of  Oct.  30,  under  the  title 
of  "The  Frame-Up  on  Dad." 

"The  Mettle  of  Jerry  McGuire."  (Bison.  Two 
reels.  Sat.,  Nov.  6.) — Reviewed  at  length  in 
issue  of  Oct.  30. 


"Twentieth  Century  Susie."  (Joker.  Sat.,  Nov. 
6.) — Xot  yet  shown  for  review. 


"Such  a  Princess."  (Rex.  Three  reels.  Sun., 
Nov.  7.) — A  costume  comedy  of  a  very  good 
order.  It  has  a  quantity  of  funny  situations,  while 
the  gay  pranks  of  Elsie  Albert  perpetrated  in  a 
dignified  kingdom  are  humorous  to  the  extreme. 
The  scenes  and  photography  do  their  share  in 
making  the  picture  thoroughly  enjoyable.  All  the 
humor  results  from  the  king's  act  of  taking  a  wild 
girl  of  the  forest  as  his  wife. 


"Cupid  and  the  Scrub  Lady."  (L-Ko.  Sun., 
Nov'.  7.) — One  of  the  best  of  recent  Leherman 
comedies,   with  Alice   Howell   appearing  as  the 


"The  Broken  Coin."  (Universal  Special  Fea- 
ture. X'ineteenth  Episode.  Two  reels.) — Both 
Kitty  and  Count  Frederick  experience  several 
weird  adventures  while  hiding  from  the  savage 
natives  in  a  grotto.  They  are  joined  by  a  long- 
lost  sailor.  At  last  the  three  sight  a  ship,  but 
before  the  episode  closes,  they  are  again  captured 
by  the  blacks.  Nothing  at  all  definite  is  accom- 
plished. 


"The  Broken  Coin."  (Universal  Special  Fea- 
ture. Twentieth  Episode.  Two  reels.) — In  this 
number  the  three  fugitives  are  rescued  by  the 
ship.  It  looked  like  an  ocean  liner  from  a  dis- 
tance, but  turns  out  to  be  a  private  yacht.  Its 
owner  is  a  villain,  who  covets  Kitty,  and  the  rest 
of  the  two  reels  are  taken  up  with  several  hot 
fights,  which  have  no  direct  influence  on  the  ad- 
vancement of  the  plot. 


Animated  Weekly  No.  190.  (Wed.,  Oct.  27.) 
— Snatches  of  the  X'ew  York  City  equal  suffrage 
parade;  views  of  a  football  game  between  Penn 
State  and  Carlisle;  the  dedication  of  a  Scottish 
Rite  Masonic  Temple  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and 
three  items  connected  with  the  world  war  are 
the  chief  events  in  this  number.  Eight  other  cur- 
rent events,  including  Hy  Mayer's  cartoons,  sup- 
plement the  reel. 


CORPORATION  STATISTICS 

At  Albanv,  N.  Y.  : 

FILM  CIRCULATION  SYSTEM,  IXC,  Man- 
hattan. General  motion  picture  film  business. 
Capital,  $100,000.  Directors:  John  O.  Gluck, 
Henry  B.  Sommer  and  Margaret  L.  Hay,  Hotel 
Bristol,   X'ew   York  Citv. 

JUVEXILE  FILM  'CORPORATION,  New 
York  City.  To  manufacture  motion  picture  films 
and  accessories.  Capital,  $5,000.  Directors :  Lilly 
Rosett,  .\llen  A.  Deutsch  and  Tennie  Deutsch, 
all  of  198  Broadwav,  X''ew  York  City. 

THE  FALK  PHOTOPLAY  CO.,  Richmond, 
X'.  Y.  Theatrical  and  motion  picture  business  in 
general.  Capital,  $1,500.  Directors:  Benjamin 
Falk,  David  Cohen  and  Bessie  Cohen,  of  981 
Amsterdam  avenue.  New  York  City. 

THE  R.  &  C.  PHOTOPLAY  CO.,  Richmond, 
N.  Y.  General  motion  and  theatrical  business. 
Capital,  $1,500.  Directors:  Max  Falk,  David 
Cohen  and  Solomon  Rosenberg,  22  EUery  street, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

AURORA  FILM  PLAYS  CORPORATIOX, 
Manhattan.  General  theatrical  and  motion  picture 
business.  Capital,  $100,000.  Directors:  Charles 
Mundt,  William  L.-  Roubert  and  Clarence  Kimball, 
115   Broadway,   Xew  York  Citv. 

MANUFACTURERS'  AMALGAMATED  MO- 
TION PICTURE  CORPORATION,  Xew  York 
City.  Motion  pictures  and  theatrical  business. 
Capital,  $100,000.  Directors:  William  R.  Cole- 
man, George  B.  Sears  and  Arthur  J.  Brann,  110 
West  40th  street,  Xew  York  City. 

BIG  "T"  FILM  CORPOR.\TION,  Brooklyn. 
Theatrical  and  motion  pictures.  Capital,  $10,000. 
Directors :  H.  Clark  Mooney,  James  O.  Miller  and 
George  G.  Dallon,  101  West  78th  street,  New 
York  City. 

THE  DAMORBA  AMUSEMEXT  CO.,  Bronx. 
Motion  pictures  and  theatrical  business.  Capital, 
$5,000.  Directors:  Robert  W.  Dasey,  Frank  C. 
Bangs  and  William  A.  Morschauser,  1476  Broad- 
way, X^ew  York  Cit}'. 

W.  H.  CAMP  KEMBLE  THEATRES  COR- 
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theatricals.  Capital,  $10,000.  Directors:  H.  Clark 
Mooney,  Fletcher  F.  Miller  and  George  C.  Wilder- 
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GENERAL  FILM  PROGRAM 

RELEASES  OF  NEXT  WEEK  RELEASES  OF  THE  WEEK  AFTER 


Monday,  November  1,  1915. 

ESSANAY— Fifty-Fifty,  D.,  3000   19338 

KALEM— The  Coquette,  D.,  4000   19330 

LUBIN— The  Sacred  Bracelet,  D.,  1000   19341 

*SELIG— Hearst-Selig  News  Pictorial,  No.  87,  N.,  1000.  19337 

SELIG— The  Flashlight,  D.,  2000   19334 

VITAGRAPH— Between  Two  Fires,  C,  1000   19336 

Tuesday,  November  2,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— Between  Father  and  Son,  D..  2000   19350 

ESSANAY— Despair.  D.,  3000   19342 

KALEM— Diana  of  the  Farm,  C,  1000   19349 

LUBIN— Up  Against  It,  C,  1000   19348 

SELIG— Athletic  Ambitions,  C,  1000   19345 

VITAGRAPH— The  Sultan  of  Zulon,  C,  2000   19346 

Wednesday,  November  3,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— Dora  Thorne,  D.,  4000   19360 

ESSANAY— The  Fable  of  "The  Escape  of  Arthur  and 

the  Salvation  of  Herbert,"  C,  1000   19355 

KALEM— The  Sign  of  the  Broken  Shackles,  D..  2000...  19353 

EDISON— The  Parson  Button  Matcher,  C,  1000   19352 

LUBIN— A  Western  Governor's  Humanity,  D.,  3000...  19357 

VITAGRAPH— A  Family  Picnic,  C,  1000   19356 

Thursday,  November  4,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Passing  Storm,  D.,  1000   19364 

ESSANAY— The  Night  That  Sophia  Graduated,  C,  1000  19365 

LUBIN— When  War  Threatened,  D.,  2000   19366 

MINA— The  False  Hair,  C,  1000   19370 

*SELIG— Hearst-Selig  News  Pictorial,  No.  88,  N.,  1000.  19369 

SELIG— The  Sinful  Influence,  D.,  3000   19371 

VITAGRAPH— The  Ebony  Casket,  C,  1000-.   19368 

Friday,  November  5,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— The     Musketeers     of     Pig    Alley,  D. 

(Reissue)    19381 

ESSANAY— Broncho  Billy's  Mexican  Wife,  W.  D.,  1000  19371 

EDISON— Friend  Wilson's  Daughter,  D.,  3000   19374 

KALEM — The  Rogue  Syndicate  (Second  of  The  Ven- 
tures of  Marguerite  Series),  D.,  1000   19378 

LUBIN— The  Urchin,  D.,  1000   19380 

VITAGRAPH— Beautiful  Thoughts,  C,  1000   19379 

Saturday,  November  6,  1915. 

EDISON— Waifs  of  the  Sea,  D.,  1000   19382 

ESSANAY— On  the  Little  Mill  Trace,  D.,  2000   19383 

KALEM — Danger  Ahead!  D.  (.^n  Episode  of  the  H.  of 

H.  Series),  1000    19389 

LUBIN— The  Cellar  Spy,  C,  1000   19385 

SELIG— The  Lost  Messenger,  D.,  1000   19390 

VITAGRAPH— Anselo  Lee,  D.,  3000   19386 


Monday,  November  8,  1915. 

ESSANAY— Twice  into  the  Light,  D.,  3000  

KALEM— The  Woman  of  the  Sea,  D.,  3000  

LUBIN— The  Orgy,  D.,  1000  

SELIG— The  Come  Back  of  Percy,  C,  2000  (Third  of  the 
Chronicles  of  Bloom  Center)  

*SELIG— Hearst-Selig  News  Pictorial,  No.  89,  N.,  1000. 

VITAGRAPH— No  Tickee  No  Washee,  C,  and  Cali- 
fornia Scrap  Book,  Split  Reel  

Tuesday,  November  9,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— Weaver  of  Claybank,  D.,  2000  

ESSANAY— Wine,  Woman  and  Song,  D.,  2000  

KALEM— The  Hoodoo's  Busy  Day,  C,  1000..  

LUBIN— Half  a  Million,  C,  1000  

SELIG— The  Chef  at  Circle  G,  W.  C,  1000  

VITAGRAPH— For  the  Honor  of  the  Crew,  D.,  3000... 

Wednesday,  November  10,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— The  Laurel  of  Tears,  D.,  3000  

EDISON— Cartoons  on  a  Yacht,  1000  

ESSANAY— The  Fable  of  Handsome  Jethro,  Who  Was 

Simply  Cut  Out  to  Be  a  Merchant,  C,  1000  

KALEM— The  Dream  Seekers,  D.,  2000  

LUBIN— The  Secret  Room,  D.,  2000  

VITAGRAPH— Hats  Is  Hats,  C,  1000  

Thursday,  November  11,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— Rosa  and  the  Author,  D.,  1000  

ESSANAY— Cupid's  Bath,  W.  C,  1000  

LUBIN— The  Ghost  of  the  Twisted  Oaks.  D..  3000  

MINA— An  Eye  Too  Many,  C,  1000  

*SELIG— Hearst-Selig  News  Pictorial,  No.  90.  N.,  1000. 
VITAGRAPH— Sis,  Com.-D.,  1000  

Friday,  November  12,  1915. 

BIOGRAPH— The  God  Within,  D.,  1000  (Reissue)  

EDISON— The  Truth  About  Helen.  D..  4000  

ESSANAY— The  Indian's  Narrow  Escape,  D.,  1000  

KALEM— The  Kidnapped  Heiress  (Third  of  the  "Ven- 
tures of  Marguerite").  D.,  1000  

LUBIN— A  Night  in  Old  Spain.  D..  1000  

VIM— The  Midnight  Prowlers,  C.  1000  

VITAGRAPH— Romantic  Reggie.  C.  1000  

Saturday,  November  13,  1915. 

ESSANAY— The  Second  Son.  D.,  3000  

EDISON— A  Broth  of  a  Boy,  D..  1000  

KALEM— The  Girl  and  the  Special  (.-^n  Episode  of  the 

H.  of  H.  Series),  D.,  1000  

LUBIN— His  Three  Brides.  C.  1000  

SELIG— The  White  Light  of  Publicity.  D..  1000  

VITAGRAPH— The  Woman's  Part.  D..  2000  


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November  6,  1915.  MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 

We  are    Pokes  and  J  abbs y 

Those  famous  comedians,  and  will  appear  regularly  in 

VIM  COMEDIES 

Bcgioning  November  12 


A  telescopic  holdup 
in  "Midnight  Prowlers" 


Nov.  12:  Nov.  26: 

''Midnight  Prowlers"  "Pressing  Business" 

Nov.  19:  Dec.  3: 

"A  Pair  of  Birds"  "Love,  Pepper  and  Sweets" 


Released  every  Friday 

on  the 

General  Film  Program 

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MUTUAL  PROGRAM 

RELEASES  OF  NEXT  WEEK 

Monday,  November  1,  1915. 

AMERICAN— The  Wasp,  D.,  2000    04096 

FALSTAFF— Freddie  the  Fake  Fisherman,  C,  1000...  04098 
NOVELTY— Putting  Papa  to  Sleep,  C,  1000   04099 

Tuesday,  November  2,  1915. 
THANHOUSER— The  Commuted  Sentence,  D.,  2000..  04100 
GAUMONT — See  America  First,  No.  8,  and  Keeping  Up 

with  the  Joneses,  Cartoon,  Split  Reel   04102 

BEAUTY— One  to  the  Minute,  C.  1000   04103 

Wednesday,  November  3,  1915. 

RIALTO— The  Devil's  Darling,  D.,  3000   04104 

NOVELTY— The  Fortune  Hunters,  C,  1000   04107 

Thursday,  November  4,  1915. 

CENTAUR— When  .\varice  Rules,  D..  2000    04108 

FALSTAFF— "Clarissa's"  Charming  Calf,  C,  1000    04110 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly  No.  44,  N.,  1000    04111 

Friday,  November  5,  1915. 

MUSTANG— The  Trail  of  the  Serpent,  D.,  2000   04112 

AMERICAN— On  Secret  Service,  D.,  1000   04114 

CUB— Who's  Who.  C,  1000   04115 

Saturday,  November  6,  1915. 

THANOPLAY— Mr.  Meeson's  Will,  D.,  3000.  ..   04116 

BEAUTY— Billy  Van  Deusen's  Campaign,  C,  1000    04119 

Sunday,  November  7,  1915. 

RELIANCE— The  Law  of  Duty,  D.,  2000    04120 

CASINO— Does  It  Pay  to  Advertise?  C,  1000   04122 

THANHOUSER— Mistake  of  Mammy  Lou,  D.,  1000...  04123 

RELEASES  OF  THE  WEEK  AFTER 

Monday,  November  8,  1915. 

AMERICAN— Alice  of  Hudson  Bay,  D.,  2000    04124 

FALSTAFF— Lulus  Lost  Lotharios,  C,  1000    04126 

NOVELTY— Something  in  Her  Eye,  C.  1000   04127 

Tuesday,  November  9,  1915. 
THANHOUSER— The   Little   Captain   of   the  Scouts, 

D.,  2000    04128 

GAUMONT — Seeing  America  First,  No.  9,  and  Keeping 

Up  with  the  Joneses,  Split  Reel   04130 

BEAUTY— Her  Adopted  Father,  C,  1000    04131 

Wednesday,  November  10,  1915. 

RELIANCE— Father  and  Son.  D..  3000   04132 

NOVELTY— Love  and  Bitters.  C.  1000   04135 

Thursday,  November  11,  1915. 

CENTAUR— Stanley  in  Starvation  Camp,  D..  2000   04136 

FALSTAFF— The  Film  Favorite's  Finish.  C,  1000   04138 

MUTUAL— Mutual  Weekly,  No.  45,  N.,  1000    04139 

Friday,  November  12,  1915. 

MUSTANG— Man  to  Man,  D..  2000   04140 

AMERICAN— To  Rent  Unfurnished.  D.,  1000   04142 

CUB— The  Double  Cross,  C.  1000    04143 

Saturday,  November  13,  1915. 

MUSTANG— This  Is  the  Life.  D.,  3000  .  04144 

BEAUTY— Almost  a  Widow.-  C.  1000  •   04147 

Sunday,  November  14,  1915. 

RELIANCE— A  Romance  of  the  .\lps.  D.,  2000   04148 

CASINO— A  Tangle  in  Hearts.  C.  1000   04150 

THANHOUSER— In  Babv's  Garden,  D..  1000   04151 


UNIVERSAL  PROGRAM 

RELEASES  OF  NEXT  WEEK 

UNIVERSAL  SPECIAL  FEATURE— The  Broken  Coin 

(Episode  20),  D.,  2000    0953 

Monday,  November  1,  1915. 
BROADWAY  UNIVERSAL   FEATURE— The  Long 

.    Chance,  D..  6000    0938 

NESTOR— A  Circumstantial  Scandal,  C,  1000    0939 

Tuesday,  November  2,  1915. 
GOLD  SEAL— The  Measure  of  Leon  Dubray,  D.,  3000. .  0940 
IMP— When  Beauty  Butts  In,  C,  lOOO   0941 

Wednesday,  November  3,  1915. 

L-KO— The  Idle  Rich.  C,  2000    0942 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY— Weekly  No.  191   0943 

Thursday,  November  4,  1915. 

LAEMMLE— .A  White  Feather  Volunteer,  D.,  2000    0944 

BIG  U— The  Markswoman.  D..  1000    0945 

POWERS — The  Thinking  Cockatoos,  Vaud.,  and  Insect 

Celebrities.  Ed   0946 

Friday,  November  5,  1915. 

IMP— The  Reward.  D..  3000    0947 

NESTOR— Father's  Helping  Hand.  C,  1000    0948 

Saturday,  November  6,  1915. 

BISON— The  Mettle  of  Jerry,  D.,  2000    0949 

JOKER— His  Twentieth  Century  Susie.  C.  1000   0950 

Sunday,  November  7,  1915. 

REX— Such  a  Princess,  Juv.  D..  3000    0951 

L-KO— Cupid  and  the  Scrub  Lady.  C.  1000    0952 

RELEASES  OF  THE  WEEK  AFTER 

UNIVERSAL  SPECIAL  FEATURE— The  Broken  Coin 

(Episode  No.  21 1.  "A  Timely  Rescue."  D..  2000    0970 

Monday,  November  8,  1915. 

BROADWAY  UNIVERSAL  FEATURE— The  Frame- 

Up.  D..  5000   0954 

NESTOR— Those  Kids  and  Cupid.  C.  1000   0955 

Tuesday,  November  9,  1915. 

GOLD  SEAL— On  the  Level.  D..  2000    0956 

REX— The  Parson  of  Pine  Mountain.  D..  1000    0957 

IMP— Getting  His  Goat.  C.  1000   0958 

Wednesday,  November  10,  1915. 

L-KO— Silk  Hose  and  High  Pressure.  C.  3000    0959 

ANIMATED  WEEKLY— Weekly  No.  192,  News.  1000  .  0960 
Thursday,  November  11,  1915. 

BIG  U— Hearts  That  Are  Human.  D..  3000    0961 

POWERS — Actors  from  the  Jungle,  .\niinal  D..  1000...  0962 
Friday,  November  12,  1915. 

POWERS— Honor  Thv  Husband.  D..  2000    0963 

VICTOR— "Promi  ssory  Notes.'  D.,  1000  (A  Storv  of 

Real  Life.  No.  1)   0954 

NESTOR— Father's  Lucky  Escape.  C.  1000  "  0965 

Saturday,  November  13,  1915. 

BISON— What  the  River  Foretold.  D..  3000    0966 

JOKER— Title  Not  Decided   0967 

Sunday,  November  14,  1915. 

REX— Liquid  Dynamite,  D..  1000    0968 

LAEMMLE— The  Masked  Substitute.  D..  2000    0969 


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ASSOCIATED  SERVICE 


Week  of  October  18,  1915. 

The  MUleading  Clue,  D.,  2000  Santa  Barbara 

For  the  Honor  of  Bar  X,  D.,  2000  Ramona 

Sared  from   Disgrace,   D.,   2000  Empire 

Double  Reward,  D.,  2000  Navajo 

Mistakes  Will  Happen,  C,  1000  Federal 

You  Never  Can  Tell,  C,  1000  Banner 

In  Wrong,  C,   1000   Atlas 

All  oa  Account  of  a  Doughnut,  C,  1000 

Alhambra 

Week  of  October  25,  1915. 

The  Plaid  Coat,  Com.  D.,  1000  Banner 

Love's  Old  Sweet  Song,  D.,  2000  Deer 

Shot  in  the  Afternoon,  C.,  1000  Associated 

The  Reckoning,  D.,  3000  Ramona 

Breaking  Into  Society,  C,  1000 ....  Santa  Babara 

O'Hara  of  the  Mounted,  D.,  2000  Federal 

The  Paradoxical  Burglar,  Com.  D.,  1000 .  .Alhambra 

Shot  at  Sunrise,  C,  1000  Monty 

Week  of  November  1,  1915. 

Hilary  of  the  Hills,  D.,  2000  Santa  Barbara 

Out  for  a  Billion,  C,  2000  Empire 

— And  He  Came  Straight  Home,  C,  1000... Atlas 

In  and  Out,  C,  2000  Banner 

Unexpected  Reward,   D.,   1000  Liberty 

Rosie's  Many  Thorns,  C,  1000  Federal 

Mother-in-Law's  Vacation  Life  in  the  West, 

C,  1000  Alhambra 

The  Crimson  Circle,  D.,  2000  Ramona 


GENERAL  FILM  PROGRAM 


10—16. 
10—18. 
10—19. 
10—21. 
10—22. 
10—23. 
10—25. 
10—26. 
10—27. 
10—28. 
10—20 

10—  30. 

11—  2. 
11—  3. 
11—  4. 
11—  5. 


10—20. 
10—22. 
10—23. 
10—27. 
10—29. 

10—  30. 

11—  3. 

11—  5. 
11—  6. 


10—23. 
10—25, 
10—26. 
10—27. 
10—28. 
10—29. 

10—  30. 

11—  1. 
11—  2. 
11—  3. 

11—  4. 
11—  5. 
11—  6. 


10—18. 
10—19. 
10—20. 
10—23. 

10—25. 
10—26. 
10—27. 
10—30. 


BI06BAPH 

The  Inevitable,  D  1000 

Bad  Money,  D  1000 

His  Hand  and  Seal,  D  2000 

The  Vulture,  D  1000 

Brute    Force    (Re-issue),    D  2000 

The  Banker  and  the  Thief,  D  1000 

Arline's    ChaufTeur,    D  1000 

A  Mystery  of  the  Mountains,  D  2000 

Harvest,  D  3000 

A  Trick  of  Fate,  D  1000 

The  Coming  of  Angelo,  (Re-issue),  D.IOOO 

The  Sheriff's  Trap,  D  1000 

Between  Father  and  Son,  D  2000 

Dora   Thorne,    D  4000 

The   Passing  Storm,   D  1000 

The    Musketeers    of    Pig    Alley,  D. 
(Reissue)   1000 

EKBOH 

Cartoons  in  the  Country,  Cart.  C...1000 

The  Land  of  Adventure,  D  3000 

The  Broken  Word,  D  1000 

The  Seventh  Day,  C  1000 

The  Mystery  of  Room  13,  D  40000 

Niagara    Falls,    Sc.,    and  Yardville 

Folks,  Ed  Split  reel 

The  Parson  Button  Matcher,  C  1000 

Friend    Wilson's    Daughter,    D  3000 

Waifs  of  the  Sea,  D  1000 

XEBAVAT 

The  Spider,  D  •  2000 

The    Destroyer,    D  3000 

Miss    Freckles,    D  2000 

Dreamy  Dud  (Up  in  the  Air),  Cart.  1000 

Fun  at  a  Ball  Game,  West.-C  1000 

Broncho   Billy's   Cowardlv   Brother ..  1000 

The  Lighthouse  by  the  Sea,  D  3000 

Fifty-Fifty,  D  .WOO 

Despair,   D  3000 

The  Fable  of  "The  Escape  of  Arthur 

and  the  Salvation  of  Herbert,"  C..1000 
The  Night  that  Sophia  Graduated,  C.IOOO 
Broncho  Billy's  Mexican  Wife.  W. -D.IOOO 
On  the  Little  Mill  Trace,  D  2000 

KALEX 

The  Apaches  of  Paris,  D  4000 

Adam's  .Ancestors,  B.  C  1000 

The  Man  in  Hiding,  D  2000 

A  Mile  a  Minute  (Episode  No.  50  of 

the  H.  of  H.  series),  D  1000 

The  Net  of  Deceit,  D  3000 

The  Knaves  and  the  Knight,  C  1000 

By  Whose   Hand,    D  2000 

Rescue   of   the    Brakemen's  Children 

(No.  51  of  H.  of  H.  series),  D...1000 


11—  1.  The  Coquette,  D  4000 

11—  2.  Diana  of  the  Farm,  C  1000 

11—  3.  The  Sign  of  the  Broken  Shackles,  D.2000 
11 —  5.  The  Rogue  Syndicate  (Second  of  The 

Ventures  of  Marguerite  Series),  D.IOOO 
11 —  6.  Danger  Ahead  (An  Episode  of  the  H. 

of  H.  Series),  D  1000 

0E0B6E  KLEIITE 

9—20.  A  Woman's  Mistake,  D  2000 

9—  27.  The  Mysterious  Visitor,  D  2000 

10—  4.  The  Fashion  Shop,  D  2000 

10— n.  Wilful   Peggy,   D  2000 

10—18.  The  Village  Outcast,  D  2000 

10—25.  The  Price  of  Ambition,  D  2000 

KmOEESBOCEEK  STAB  FEATTTBES 

8—  18.  Capital  Punishment,   D  3000 

9—  1.  Nancy  of  Stony  Isle,  D  3000 

9—15.  The  Purple  Night,  D  3000 

9—  29.  The  Girl  from  Tim's  Pl«ce,  D  3000 

10—  13.  The  Dragon's  Qaw,  D  3000 

10—27.  The  Morning  After,  C  3000 


RELEASE  DAYS 

OENEBAL  FIUC  FBOeKAK 

Monday — Essanay,  Hearst-Selig  News  Pic- 
torial, Kalem,  Geo.  Kleine,  Selig,  Vitagraph. 

Tuesday — Biograph,  Essanay,  Lubin,  Selig, 
Vitagraph. 

Wednesday — Edison,  Essanay,  Kalem,  Lubin, 

Selig,  Vitagraph. 
Thursday — Biograph,     Essanay,  Hearst-Selig 

News  Pictorial,  Lubin,  Mina,  Vitagraph. 
Friday — Biograph,    Edison,    Essanay,  Kalem, 

Selig,  Lubin,  Vim  Vitagraph. 
.Saturday — Edison,     Essanay,     Kalem,  Lubin, 

Vitagraph,  Selig. 

MTTTUAL  PB06RAH 

Monday — American,  Falstaff,  Novelty. 
Tuesday — Thanhouser,    (^umont     (Cart,  and 

Sc.),  Beauty. 
Wednesday — Reliance,  Rialto,  or  Ceataur,  and 

Novelty. 

Thursday — Centaur,  Falstaff,  Mutual  Weekly. 
Friday — Mustang,  American,  Cub. 
Saturday — Clipper  (Am.),  Thanoplay,  or  Mus- 
tang, and  Beauty. 
Sunday — Reliance,  Casino,  Thanhouser. 

TnnVEBSAX  PBOGBAM 
Monday — Broadway  Universal  Feature,  Nestor. 
Tuesday — Gold  Seal,  Rex,  Imp. 
Wedneidiy — Victor,  L-Ko,  Animated  Weekly. 
Thursday — Laemmle,  Big  U,  Powers. 
Friday — ^™Pi  Victor,  Nestor. 
Saturday — Bison,  Powers,  Joker. 
Sunday — Rex.  Laemmle,  L-Ko. 


10—14. 
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10—25. 
10—26. 
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10—29. 
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LITBIN 

Nan  o'  the  Backwoods,  D  

Belle  of  Barnegat,  D  

The  Price  of  Pies,  C  

The  Lonely  Fisherman,  D  

Cutting  Down  Expenses,  C  

Nell  of  the  Dance  Hall,  D  

When  Youth  Is  Ambitious,  D. 

A  Woman  Reclaimed,  D  

Plaving  Horse,  C  

The  Inevitable  Penalty,  D  

Playing  in  Tough  Luck,  C  

The  Man  of  God,  D  


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The  Strange  Unknown,  D  

The  Wonder  Cloth,  D  

His  Body  Guard,  C  

The   Sacred   Bracelet,  D  

Up  Against  It,  C  

A  Western  Governor's  Humanity,  D 

When  War  Threatened,  D  

The    Urchin,  D  

The  Cellar  Spy,  C  


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MIKA 

8—19.  A  Case  of  Limburger,  C  1000 

8—  26,  How  Wifey  Won  Out,  C  1000 

9—  23.  When  Husbands  Go  to  War,  C  1000 

9—  30.  Why  the  Boarders  Left,  C  1000 

1(X—  7.  The  Honeymoon  Roll,  C  1000 

10 —  14.  Alone    in    the    City    of    Sighs  and 

Tears,  C  1000 

10 — 21.  Beached  and  Bleached.  C  1000 

10—  28.  Kidding  the  Goats,   C  1000 

11—  4.  The  False  Hair,  C  1000 


10—21 


10—23. 
10—25. 

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10—  30. 

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10—15 
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10—19. 
10—20, 
1 0—20, 
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10—22 
10—23, 
10—25, 
10—27, 
10—28, 
10—29, 
10—30 


HEABBT-SZLIG  MXWS  PICTOBIAI, 
Issued  every  Monday  and  Thursday. 
BEUe 

The  Chronicles  of  Bloom  Center,  series 
No.   1,  The  Landing  of  the  Hose 

Reel,  D  3000 

,  In  Leopard  Land,  D  1000 

.  The  Chronicles  of  Bloom  Center,  No. 

2,  "Shoo  Fly,"  C  2000 

The  Race  for  a  Gold  Mine,  W.  D...1000 

When  California  Was  Wild,  D  1000 

.  Hearst-Selig  News  Pictorial,  No.  87, 

N  1000 

,  The  Flashlight,  D  2000 

.  Athletic    Ambitions,    C  lOCiO 

Hearst-Selig  News  Pictorial,  No.  88, 

N  1000 

Their  Sinful  Influence,  D.    . . 

,  The  Lost   Messenger,  D  

TITAeBAPH 
How  John  Came  Home,  C... 

The  Ruling  Power,  D  

Quits.  C  

The  Gods  Redeem,  D  

Brown's  Summer  Boarders,  C. 
To  Cherish  and  Protect,  D. 


.3000 
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.  On  the  Turn  of  a  Card,  D  1000 

A  Safe  Investment,  C  

The  Woman  in  the  Box,  D.... 

The  Prince  in  Disguise,  C  

Itsky,  the  Inventor,  C  

The  Unforgiven,  D  

A  Case  of  Eugenics,  C  

The  Shabbies,  C.  D  

Between  Two  Fires,  C  

The  Sultan  of  Zulon,  C  

A    Family    Picnic,  C  

The  Ebony  Casket,  C  

Beautiful  Thoughts,  C  

Anselo  Lee,  D  


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.3000 


INDUSTRIAL  MOVING  PICTURE  CO. 

TBIBimE  AMIICATE*  WEEKLY 
Issued  Every  Monday. 


MUTUAL  FILM  PROGRAf.: 

'  1 

AJCEBICAN 

9—  27.  The  Terror  of  the  MounUins,  D  2000 

10—  1.  Hearts  in  Shadow,  D  1000 

10—  4.  Just  as  It  Happened,  D  200O 

10—  8.  The  Sting  of  It,  D  1000 

10—11.  Let  There  Be  Light,  D  2000 

10—15.  Profit  from  Loss,  D  1000 

10—18.  The  Blot  on  the  Shield,  D  2000 

10 — 22.  Visitors  and  Visitees,  D  1000 

10 — 25.  Out  of  the  Ashes,  D  2000 

10—  29.  The  Smuggler's  Cave,  D  1000 

11—  1.  The  Wasp,  D  2000 

11 —  5.  On  Secret  Service,  D  lOOO 

BEATTTT 

10 —  9.  Curing  Father   1000 

10—12.  Billy— the  Hill  Billy  1000 

10—16.  Aided  by  the  Movies  1000 

10—19.  Alias  James.   Chauffeur  1000 

10 — 20.  Deserted  at  the  .Auto  1000 

10 — 26.  Touring  with  Tillie,  C  1000 

10 —  30.  An  Auto  Bungalow  Fracas,  C  1000 

11—  2.  One  to  the  Minute.  C  1000 

11 —  6.  Billy  Van  Deusen's  Campaign,  C  lOOO 

CASINO 

10—24.  The  Reformer,  C  1000 

10—31.  Zabiskv's  Waterloo,  C  1000 

n —  7.  Does  It  Pay  to  .Advertise?  C  1000 

CENTAITE 

9—  30.  Stanley's  Search  for  the  Hidden  City, 

D  2000 

10—  14.  Stanley's  Close   Call  2000 

10—21.  Vindication   2000 

10—27.  The  Blood  of  Our  Brothers.  D  3000 

10—  28.  The  White  King  of  the  Zaras,  D  2000 

11—  4.  When  Avarice  Rules.  D  2000 

CLIPPER 

9—  18.  The  Great  Question.  D  3000 

10—  30.  The  Idol,  D  3000 

era 

9—  24.  The  Treasure  Box,  C  lOt* 

10—  1.  The  Orienul  Spasm,  C  1000 

10—  8.  A  Change  of  Luck,  C  100» 

10 — 15.  Taking  a  Chance  1000 

10—21.  The  Little   Detective  1000 

10 —  29.  Terrv  to  the  Rescue,  C  1000 

11—  5.  "Who's  Who,  C  1000 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


November  6.  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


18  EAST  41st  STREET, 
NEW  YORK  CITY. 


The  Film  Trade, 
New  York  City. 

Gentlemen: - 

The  Fire  Department  has  made  many 
regulations  affecting  the  storage  of  films. 
If  these  affect  your  present  quarters,  in- 
vestigate the  16  story  building  especially 
constructed  for  such  occupancy  at  the  south- 
east comer  of  7th  Avenue  and  49th  Street. 

This  building  has  many  advantages 
for  the  firm  desiring  executive  offices^  and 
exchange  binder  one  roof. 

Leases  are  now  being  made. 

Possession  February  First© 

Very  truly  yours, 

AGENT. 


We  have  secured  good  advertisers  to  talk  to  YOU.    listen  to  them! 


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VoL  12.    No.  18. 


RELEASE  DATES  FOR  READY  REFERENCE 


P'lilf 


ECLAIR 

9 —  9.  Brand  Blotters,   D  2000 

1»—  1.  The  Fool's  Heart.   D  2000 

FALSTAFF 

10 —  4.  Cousin  Clara's  Cook  Book   

10 —  7.  Dicky's  Demon  Dachshund.  C  1000 

10—11.  Capers  of  College  Chaps,  C  1000 

10—14.  Bing  Bang  Brothers,  C  1000 

10 — 18.  Busted  But  Benevolent,  C  1000 

10 — 21.  Hattie  the  Hair  Heiress,  C  1000 

10—25.  Tillie  the  Terrible  Typist,  C  1000 

10—  28.  The  Soap  Suds  Star,  C  1000 

11 —  1.  Freddie,  the  Fake  Fisherman,  C  1000 

11 — .  4.  "Clarissa's  "  Charming  Calf,  C  1000 

GATTMONT 

10—  3.-  His  Lordship's  Dilemma,  C  1000 

10 —  5.  Seeing  America  First,  Sc.,  and  Keep- 
ing Up  with  the  Joneses,  Cart.  C. 
^  Split  Reel 

10—  7.  In  Leash,  D  -2000 

10—12.  Seeing  America  First,  No.  5,  Sc.,  and 
Keeping    Up    with    the  Joneses, 

Cart.,   C   Split  Reel 

10 — 19.  Seeing  America  First,  No.  6,  Sc.,  and 
Keeping  Up  with  the  Joneses, 
Cart  ,    C.    .   Split  Reel 

10 —  26.  Seeing  America  First,  No.  7,  Sc.,  and 

Keeping    Up    with    the  Joneses, 
Cart.,   C  Split  Reel 

11 —  2.  See  America  First.  Xo.  8.  and  Keeping 

Up  with  the  Joneses,  Cartoon ..  Split  reel 
MAJES'nC 

8—22.  The  Fatal  Hour,  D  2000 

8—24.  The  Little  Cupids,  D  1000 

8—29.  A  Child  of  the  Surf,  D  2000 

8—  31.  Hearts  and  Flowers,  D  1000 

9—  S.  Her  Oath  of  Vengeance,  D  2000 

9—  7.  For  Love  of  Mary  Ellen,  D  1000 

9—12.  His  Guiding  Angel,  D  2000 

9—  14.  The  LitUe  Life  Guard,  D  1000 

MUSTANG 

10—  22.  The  Sheriff  of  Willow  Creek,  D  2000 

10—23.  Buck's  Lady  Friends,  D  3000 

10—29.  Playing  for  High  Stakes,  D  2000 

11_  5.  The"  Trail  of  the  Serpent,  D  2000 

MUTUAL 

9—26.  Kidnapped  at  the  Church,  C  1000 

9 —  29.  Love's  Strategy,  C  1000 

18—  6.  Just  Like  Hii  Wife,  C  1000 

MUTUAL  WEEKLY 
Issued  every  Thursday. 

NOVELTY 

10—  18.  Rip  Van  Winkle  Badlv  Ripped,  C...1000 

10—20.  You  Can't  Beat  It,  C  1000 

10—25.  Hobo  Nerve,  C  1000 

10—  27.  Love  and  Artillery,  C  1000 

11 —  1.  Putting  Papa  to  Sleep,  C  1000 

11—  3.  The  Fortune  Hunters,  C  1000 

9—11.  The  Father.   D  2000 

9—15.  The  Dark  Horse,  D  1000 

9—19.  The  Doll  House  Mystery,  D  2000 

9—  26.  Merely  Players,  D  2000 

10—  3.  As  in  Days  of  Old.  D  1000 

10—10.  Queen  of  the  Band,  D  2000 

10—13.  The  Bread  Line,  D  3000 

10—17.  The  Ever-Loving  Isle,  D  20QO 

10—24.  The  Penalty,  D  2000 

10—  31.  The  Feud,  D  2000 

11—  7.  The  Law  of  Duty,  D  2000 

BJAXTO 

10—  6.  Sunshine  and  Tempest,  D  3000 

10—  2«.  The  Card  Plavers,  D  3000 

11—  3.  The  Devil's  Darling,  D  3000 

RODEO 

8—  9.  Aunt  Matilda  Outfitted,  C  1000 

9—  1.  The  Leap  for  Life,  D  2000 

THANHOUSER 

10—  3.  The  Mystery  of  Eagle's  Cliff,  D  1000 

10—  5.  The  Light  on  the  Reef,  D  2000 

10—10.  The    Has-Been.    D  1000 

10—12.  The  Scoop  at  Belville.  C  2000 

Down  on  the  Phonev  Farm,  Cart  C..1000 
10—17.  John  T.  Rocks  and  the  Flivver,  CD..  1000 

10—19.  The  Spirit  of  Audubon,  D  2000 

10 — 24.  At  the  Patrician's  Club,  D  1000 

10 — 26.  The  Conscience  of  Juror  No.  10,  D..2000 

10 —  31.  The  Fisherwoman,  D  1000 

11 —  2.  The  Commuted  Sentence,  D  2000 

11 —  7.  Jlistake  of  Mammy  Lou,  D  1000 

THANOPLAY^ 

10 —  IS.  The  Long  Arm  of  the  Secret  Service, 

D  3000 

11—  6.  Mr.  Meeson's  Will,  D  3000 


PATHE  EXCHANGE,  INC. 


The  Pathe  News — Issued  Twice  Every  Week. 
Week  of  October  25,  1915. 
New  .\dventures  of  Wallingford,  No.  4,  C, 

2000   Pathe 

Police  Dog  to  the  Rescue,  Cart.,  and  Inti- 
mate Study  of  Birds.,  Ed.,  No.  10,  Split 

reel   Pathe 

The   Eleventh   Hour,  D.,  3000  Victory 

WhiflSes    Woos    and    Trouble    Brews,  C, 

1000   Pathecolor 

Xeal  of  the  Navv,  No.  9,  D.,  2000  Panama 

Comrade  John.  D.,  5000  G.  R.  Play 

Dough  Nuts,  C,  1000  Starlight 

Week  of  November  1,  1915. 
New  Adventures  of  Wallingford,  No.  5,  C, 

2000   Pathe 

Giving  Them  Fits,  C,  1000  Phunphilms 

Children  of  the  Netherlands,  Col.  Sc.  . .  Photocolor 

and  Human  Movements  Analyzed.  Ed.... Globe 
.\dventures  of  a  Madcap,  Col.  D.,  4000.  .Pathecolor 

Neal  of  the  Navv.  No.  10.  2000  Panama 

Whiffles  Futile  Flivver,  Col.  C,  1000.  .Pathecolor 

The  Menace  of  the  Mute.  D.,  5000  G.  R.  Play 

Flats  and  Sharps,  C,  1000  Starlight 

Week  of  November  8,  1915. 
New  Adventures  of  Wallingford,  No.  6,  D., 

2000   Pathe 

Bughouse  Bell-Hops,  C,  1000  Phunphilms 

Bolt  from  the  Sky.  D.,  3000  Balboa 

Xeal  of  the  X'avy,  No.  11,  D.,  2000  Panama 

.Vedra.  D..  5000  G.  R.  Plays 

Kungling  Burglars  Burgle,  C,  1000  Starlight 


UNIVERSAL  PROGRAM 


ANIMATED  WEEKLY 

Issued  every  Wednesday. 

BIG  U 

8—  29.  The  Valley  of  Regeneration,  D  2000 

9—  2.  Tam  O'Shanter,  D  3000 

9—  9.  The  Finest  Gold,  D  1000 

9—16.  In  the  Heart  of  the  Hills,  D  1000 

9 — 23.  No  Release  this  week. 

9—  30.  The  Sheriff  of  Red  Rock  Gulch,  D  2000 

10—  7.  The  $50,000  Jewel  Theft,  D  2000 

10 — 14.  No  release  this  dav. 

10—21.  The  Greater  Courage,  W.  D  2000 

10 —  28.  The  Flag  of  Fortune.  D  2000 

11—  4.  The  Markswoman.   D  1000 

BISON 

9—18.  The  Surrender,  D  3000 

9—  25.  A  Message  for  Help,  D  2000 

10—  2.  The   Ghost  Wagon,   D  3000 

10—  9.  The  Queen  of  Jungle  Land,  D  3000 

10—16.  The  Yellow  Star,  D  3000 

10—23.  A  Fight  to  a  Finish,  D  3000 

10—  30.  The  Superior  Claim,  W.  D  3000 

11—  6.  The  Mettle  of  Jerry.  D  2000 

BROADWAY  UNIVERSAL  FEATURES 

9 — 13.  Business  Is  Business,  D  6000 

9—20.  Under  Southern  Skies.  D  5000 

9 —  27.  Judge  Not;  or  The  Woman  of  Mona 

Diggins.  D  6000 

10 —  4.  Fatherhood,  D  4000 

10—11.  The  Man  of  Shame,  D  5000 

10—18.  The  Campbells  Are  Coming,  D  4000 

10—  25.  The  College  Orphan,  D  6000 

11—  1.  The  Long  Chance,  D  6000 

GOLD  SEAT. 

9—  7.  The  Deceivers,  D  2000 

9—14.  The  Oueen  of  Hearts,  D  3000 

9—21.  The  Tenor,  D  3000 

9—  28.  Her  Prev.  D  2000 

10—  5.  The  Silent  Battle,  D  3000 

10—12.  The  Kiss  of  Dishonor,  D  2000 

10—19.  The  Fair  God  of  Sun  Island,  D  3000 

10 —  26.  No  release  this  day. 

11 —  2.  The  Measure  of  Leon  Dubray.  D  3000 

ncp 

9—28.  Billy's  College  Job,  C  1000 

9—  29.  An  All  Around  Mistake,  C  2000 

10—  1.  The  Wolf  of  Debt.  D  4000 

10—  5.  The  Unnecessary  Se.x,  C  1000 

10—12.  Bashful  Glen,  C  1000 


10 — 15.  No  relerse. 
10 — 19.  No  release 

10—22.  The  Meddler.  D  2000 

10—26.  Bv  Return  Male,  C  1000 

10—  29.  The  Craters  of  Fire.  D  3000 

11 —  2.  When  Beaut v  Butts  In,  C  1000 

11—  5.  The  Reward,  D  3000 

JOKES 

8—  28   The  Bravest  of  the  Brave,  C  1000 

9—  4.  When  Hiram  Went  to  the  City,  C  1000 

9 — 11.  At  the  Beach  Incognito,  C  1000 

9 — 18.  He  Couldn't  Fool  His  Mother-in-Law, 

C  1000 

9—  25.  He  Couldn't  Support  His  Wife,  C  1000 

10 —  2.  An   Innocent  Villain,  C  lOOO 

10 —  9.  No  Babies  Allowed,  C  1000 

10—16.  A  Millionaire  for  a  Minute,  C  1000 

10—23.  Pete's  Awful  Crime,  C  1000 

10—  30.  A  Day  at  Midland  Beach,  C  1000 

11—  6.  His  20th  Century  Susie,  C  lOO*^' 

LAEMXLE 

9—12.  His  Last  Word,  D  lOOO 

9 — 19.  No  Release  this  week. 

9—23.  The  Cry  of  the  First  Born,  D  3000 

9 —  26.  No  Release  this  week. 

10—  3.  Her  Three  Mothers,  D  3000 

10 —  7.  No  release. 

10 — 10.  Marianna,  D  1000 

10—14.  The  Girl  of  the  Dance  Hall,  W.  D...3000 

10—  28.  No  Release  This  Week. 

11 —  4.  .\  White  Feather  Volunteer,  D  200'' 

L-KO 

10—10   A  Bath  House  Tragedy,  C  2000 

10 — 13.  Under  New  Management,  C  2000 

10—17.  Does  Flirting  Pay?,  C  1000 

10—20.  Room    and    Board — a    Dollar   and  a 

Half,  C  2000 

10—24.  Poor  But  Dishonest,  C  1000 

10—27.  Tears  and  Sunshine.  C  1000 

10 —  31.  Father's  First  Murder,  C  1000 

11—  3.  The  Idle  Rich,  C  2000 

11 —  7.  Cupid  and  the  Scrub  Lady,  C  1000 

NESTOR 

9—20.  It  Alm«§t  Happened,  C  1000 

9—24   When  Lrarie  Went  to  Sea,  C  1000 

9—  27.  Snatched  from  the  -Altar,  C  1000 

10—  4.  When  a  Man's  Fickle,  C  1000 

10 —  8.  Eddie's  Little  Love  Affair,  C  1000 

10—11.  Some  Fixer,  C  1000 

10—15.  And  the  Best  Man  Won,  C  1000 

10 — 18.  A  One  Cylinder  Courtship,  C  1000 

10 — 22.  Almost  a  Knockout,  C  1000 

10—25.  An  Heiress  for  Two,  C  1000 

10—  29.  The  Frarae-Up  on  Dad.  C  1000 

11—  1.  A  Circumstantial  Scandal,  C  1000 

11—  5.  Father's  Helping  Hand.  C  1000 

POWERS 

10 — 12.  The  Third  Partner,  D  1000 

10 — 14.  Ladv  Babbles  and  Detective  Duck  in 

When  the  West  Went  Dry,  C  1000 

10 — 16.  The  Vengeance  of  Guido,  D  1000 

10—21.  The  Prankful  Ponies.  Vaud.  Act.  and 

Insect  Oddities,  Ed  Split  reel 

10 — 23.  A  Pure  Gold  Partner,  D  1000 

10 — 28.  Ladv  Baffles  and  Detective  Duck  in 

The  Lost  Roll,  C  ...1000 

10—  31.  The  Man  from  Argentine,  D  2000 

11 —  4.  The  Thinking  Cockatoos,  Vaud..  and 

Insect   Celebrities,   Ed  Split  Reel 

REX 

9 — 14.  How  Blarly  Saved  the  Farm,  D.,  and 

From  Frau  to  Spalato,  Ed  Split  retl 

9 — 16.  Joe  Martin  Turns  'Em  Loose,  Animal 

C  2000 

9—19.  The  Pine's  Revenge,  D  2000 

9 —  26.  The  Fascination  of  the  Fleur  4e  Lis. 

D  3000 

10 —  8.  The  House  with  the  Drawn  Shades. 

D  2000 

10—10  Alas  and  Alack.  D  1000 

10—17.  A  Mother's  Atonement.  D  3000 

10 — 19.  Lon  of  Lone  Mountain.  D  1000 

10—24.  The  Springtime  of  the  Spirit,  D  3000 

10—  26.  The  Millionaire  Paupers.  D  3000 

11 —  7.  Such  a  Princess.  Juv.  D  .^000 

VICTOR 

9 —  1.  For  Professional  Reasons,  D  2M0 

9 —  3.  X  apabond    Love.   D  lOM 

9—10.  The  Country  Circus,  C  IMO 

9—15.  A  Shriek  in  the  Night,  D  3000 

9—  22.  Not  a  Lamb  Shall  Stray,  D  19H 

10 —  6   The  Woman  Who  Lied  4000 

10-^15.  A  Kentuck-v  Idvll,  D  2000 

10 — 22.  The  Magic  Bon-Bon.  C  lOCO 

10—27.  A  Life  at  Stake,  W.  D  2000 


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FOX  FILM  CORPORATION 


9 — 20.  Regeneration   5  reels 

9 — 27.  The  Wonderful  Adventure  5  reels 

10 —  4.  Sin   5  reels 

10—11.  The   Little  Gipsy  5  reels 

10—18.  The  Soul  of  Broadway  5  reels 

10 —  25.  The  Family  Stain  5  reels 

11 —  1.  Carmen   6  reels 

11 —  8.  The  Blindness  of  Devotion  S  reels 

11 — 15.  A  Woman's  Past  5  reels 


KLEINE-EDISON  FEATURE  SERVICE 


GEO.  KLEINE 

9 —  1.  The  Woman  Next  Door  5  reels 

9 —  8.  The  Money  Master  5  reels 

9—15.  The  Fixer   5  reels 

10—  20.  The  Green  Cloak  S  reels 

11 —  3.  The  Sentimental  Lady  5  reels 

11 — 17.  The  Politicians   5  reels 

EBiaOK 

10 —  6.  Vanity  Fair   7  reels 

10—  13.  The  Magic  Skin  5  reels 

11—  10.  Children  of  Eve  5  reels 


IffiTRO  PICTURES  CORPORATION 


OOLVMBIA  PlOrVXaS  OOKPOKATION 

8 —  16.  A  Royal  Family  5  reels 

9 —  27.  An  Enemy  to  Society  5  reels 

TOrTTLAJL  FLATB  *  PLATERS 

8 —  9.  Vampire   5  reels 

8 — 30.  Her  Great  Match  5  reels 

10 —  4.  The  Song  of  the  Wage  Slave  S  reels 

10—25.  My  Madonna  5  reels 

B.  A.  BOLFE  PHOTOPLAYS,  IVC. 

8—  2.  Sealed  Valley   5  reels 

8—  23.  When  a  Woman  Loves  5  reels 

9 —  6.  Tke  Soul  of  a  Woman  5  reels 

9 — 20.  The  Bridge  or  The  Bigger  Man... 5  reels 

10 — 11.  Emmy  of  Stork's  Nest  5  reels 

10 —  18.  The  Final  Judgment  5  reels 

11 —  1.  Tables  Turned   S  reels 

11 — 15.  The  Woman  Pays  5  reels 

11 — 22.  One  Million  Dollars  5  reels 

aVAUTT  PICTVBES 

9 — 13.  The  Silent  Voice  5  reels 

11 —  8.  Pennington's  Choice   5  reels 


MUTUAL  MASTERPICTURES 


V.  Tke  Wolf- Man  {Reliance)  4  reels 

iS.  The  Man  from  Oregon  {American)  5  reels 

39.  The   House   of   a   Thousand  Scandals 

{American)   4  reels 

40.  The    Price    of    Her    Silence  (Than- 

houser)   4  reels 

41.  Bred  in  the  Bone  {Reliance)  4  reels 

42.  The  Brink  (A^.  ¥.  Motion)  4  reels 

43.  The  Miracle  of  Life  {American)  4  reels 

44.  His  Wife  {Thanhouser)  4  reels 

45.  The  Seventh  Noon  {Mutual)  4  reels 

46.  The  End  of  the  Road  (American)  5  reels 


PARAMOUNT  PICTURES 


FAHOUS  FLAYEBS 

■9 —  2.  The  Incorrigible  Dukane  5  reels 

9 —  6.  Esmeralda   S  reels 

9—20.  The  White  Pearl  S  reels 

9—  30.  The  Fatal   Card  S  reels 

10 —  4.  Zaza   S  reels 

10—  7.  The  Girl  of  Yesterday  S  reels 

10—11.  The  White  Pearl  S  reels 

10 —  28.  The  Masqueraders   5  reels 

11—  4.  Still  Waters,  C.-D  5  reels 

11 —  8.  Madame  Butterfly,  D  S  reels 

11 — 11.  The    Mummy    and    the  Humming 

Bird,  D  5  reels 

ai— IS.  Bella  Donna,  D  5  ree'h 

11 — 29.  The  Prince  and  the  Pauper  5  reels 


BOSWOETH 

9 — 23.  'Twas  Ever  Thus  5  reels 

JESSE  LASKY  COMPANY 

9 —  9.  Out  of  Darkness  5  reels 

9—13.  The  Case  of  Becky  5  reels 

9—  27.  The   Explorer   S  reels 

10—  14.  Blackbirds   5  reels 

10—18.  The  Chorus  Lady  S  reels 

10 —  21.  The  Secret  Sin  5  reels 

11—  1.  Ca  rmen.  D  5  reels 

II — 18.  -Armstrong's  Wife   5  reels 

11 — 22.  Chimmie  Fadden  Out  West,  C  4  reels 

MOBOSCO  PHOTOPLAY  COMPANY 

8 —  26.  Majesty  of  the  Law  5  reels 

9—  16.  Peer  Gynt   5  reels 

10—  25.  The  Yankee  Girl  5  reels 

PALLAS 

11 —  25.  A  Gentleman  from  Indiana,  D  5  reels 


TRIANGLE  FILM  CORPORATION 


KAY-BEE-INCE  PRODUCTIONS 

-  7.  The  Iron  Strain  (Dustin  Farnum)..5  reels 
-14.  The  Coward  (Frank  Keenan)  5  reels 

FINE  AETS-GEIFFITH  PRODUCTIONS 

-  7.  The  Lamb  (Douglas  Fairbanks) ...  .5  reels 
-14.  Old  Heidelberg  (Dorothy  Gish)  5  reels 

KEYSTONE-SENNETT  PRODUCTIONS 

-  7.  My  Valet  (Raymond  Hitchcock) ..  .4  reels 

-  7.  A  Game  Old  Knight  (Charles  Mur- 

ray)  2  reels 

-14.  Stolen  Magic  (Raymond  Hitchcock)  .2  reels 
-14.  A  Favorite  Fool  (Eddie  Foy)  2  reels 


Vitagraph  Lubin-Seug-Essanat.  Inc. 


VITAGRAPH 

Week  of 

9 —  29.  Playing  Dead   S  parts 

10 —  4.  Dust  of  Egypt  ".  ...Sparts 

10—  18.  The  Man  Who  Couldn't  Beat  God.. 5  parts 

11 —  1.  The  Turn  of  the  Road  5  parts 

11 — IS.  Heights  of  Hazard  5  parts 

11 — 29.  The  Caveman   5  parts 

LUBIN 

8 —  30.  Ring  Tailed   Rhinoceros  4  parts 

9 —  10.  The  Great  Ruby  .Sparts 

9 —  20.  Tillie's  Tomato  Surprise  6  parts 

10 —  25.  The  Rights  of  Man  Sparts 

SELIG 

8 —  23.  House  of  a  Thousand  Candles  5  parts 

9 —  20.  The  Circular  Staircase  5  parts 

10—  18.  A  Black  Sheep  Sparts 

11 —  15.  Sweet  Alyssum   5  parts 

E8SANAY 

8 —  16.  A  Bunch  of  Keys  5  parts 

9—  13.  The  Man   Trail  6  parts 

10 —  11.  In  the  Palace  of  the  King  6  parts 

11 —  1.  The  Crimson  Wing  Sparts 

11 —  8.  The  Raven   5  parts 

12 —  6.  The  Alster  Case  S  parts 


WORLD  FILM  CORPORATION 


ARMSTRONG 

9 — 27.  The  Lure  of  Woman  5  reels 

BLANEY 

11 —  8.  The  Little  Church  Around  the  Cor- 
ner  S  reels 

BBADY 

9 —  6.  The  Imposter   5  reels 

9—13.  The  Ivory  Snuff  Box  5  reels 

10 —  11.  The  Family  Cupboard  5  reels 

11—  29.  The  Sins  of  Society  5  reels 

CALIFORNIA 

10—25.  Salvation  Nell   5  reels 

EQUITABLE 

9—20.  Trilby   5  reels 

9—27.  The  Master  of  the  House  5  reels 

10 —  4.  The  Price   5  reels 

10 — U.  Blue  Grass   5  reels 

10 — 18.  The  Bludgeon   5  reels 

10 —  25.  Divorced   5  reels 

11—  1.  The  Better  Woman  5  reels 

11 —  8.  Should  a  Wife  Forgive  5  reels 

11—15.  The  Cowardly  Wav  5  reels 


SHUBEBT 

9 — 20.  Evidence   5  reels 

9 — 27.  Little  Mademoiselle   5  reels 

10 —  3.  The  Flash  of  an  Emerald  5  reels 

10—  18.  The  Heart  of  the  Blue  Ridge  5  reels 

11 —  1.  Bought   S  reels 

11—15.  A  Butterfly  on  the  Wheel  5  reels 

11 — 22.  The  Code  of  the  Mountains  S  reels 


FEATURES  FOR  STATE  RIGHTS 


ALL  FEATURES  BOOKING  AGENCY 

Right  Off  the  Bat  5  reels 

CONTINENTAL  PHOTOPLAY  CORPORATION 

-Sept. — A  Continental  Girl  5  reels 

CORT  FILM  CORPORATION 

The   Melting   Pot  S  reels 

The  Whirl  of  Life  (The  Castles)... 6  parts 

COSHOFOTOFILM  COMPANY 

Incomparable    Mistress    Bellairs  4  parts 

Liberty  Hall   3  parts 

The  Black  Spot  4  reels 

Victoria  Cross   4  reels 

0-18   4  reels 

DRA-KO  FILM  COMPANY,  INC. 

.\ug. — York  State  Folks  5  reels 

GREAT  NORTHERN  FILM  COMPANY 

A  Deal  with  the  Devil  3  reels 

Through  the  Enemy's  Lines  4  reels 

The  Evangelist  (IV.  Piilander)  4  reels 

The  Heart  of  Lady  Alaine  4  reels 

ITALA  FILM  COMPANY 

Cabiria   

Treasure  of  the  Louzats  4  partf 

Jules  Porel — Serpent   3  parts 

The  Strong  Arm  of  Maciste  

IVAN  FILM  PRODUCTIONS,  INC. 

Aug. — A  Mother's  Confession  S  reels 

K.  &  R.  COMPANY 

July — Silver  Threads  Among  the  Gold  5  reels 

LIBERTY  MOTION  PICTURE  COMPANY 

Sept. — An  -American  Gentleman  S  reels 

Oct. — For  $5,000  a  Year  5  reels 

Oct. — The  Struggle   5  reels 

LINICK  AND  MELCHIOR 

Was  She  to  Blame?  {Elm  Features)  5  parts 

F.  0.  NIELSEN 

Guarding  Old  Glory  5  reels 

Just  Out  of  College  5  reels 

Thorns  of  Passion  4  reels 

Little  Sunset   4  reels 

The  Spoilers   9  reels 

All  for  a  Girl  S  reels 

PHOTODRAMA  COMPANY 

How  Molly  Made  Good  6  reels 

PHOTOPLAY  RELEASING  COMPANY 

Aug. — Sarah  Bernhardt  at  Home  2  parts 

PROHIBITION  FILM  CORPORATION 

Prohibition   S  parts 

REELPUYS  CORPORATION 

The  Cowpuncher   S  reels 

STANDARD  NEWSFILM.  INC. 

Are  We  Ready?  4  reels 

STERLING  CAMERA  &  FILM  CO. 

Land  o'  the  Lost  S  reels 

The  Game  of  Three  S  reels 

SUN  PHOTOPLAY  CO.,  Im. 

The  PriaccM  of  India  5  reels 

UNITED  PHOTOPLAYS 

Japan   (  re«l« 

Onna   <  rMb 


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Ans. — If  you  take 
the  rheostat  in  Fig.  20 
and  place  it  in  water 
as  illustrated  in  Fig. 
22,  you  can  use  such  a 
rheostat  for  several 
other  purposes  and 
combinations  than  de- 
scribed in  answer  to  question  29. 

Suppose  you  should  be  on  the  road  and  you  found 
it  necessary  to  use  a  rheostat  like  illustrated  in  Fig.  20, 
for  the  control  of  two  machines  operating  at  50  amperes 
each,  then  it  would  be  very  simple  to  connect  the  second 
arc  to  the  very  same  rheostat  as  illustrated  herewith  in 


31 — Illustrate  and  describe 
other  useful  combinations 
which  can  be  obtained  by  the 
use  of  an  ordinary  25  to  30  am- 
pere wire  coil  or  grid  rheostat 
by  immersing  the  rheostat  in 
water  for  artificial  cooling. 


Motion  Picture  Projection  Simplified 

by  J.  H.  Hmllbert 

the  arc.  In  such  a  case  a  special  transformer  should 
be  made,  giving  maybe  100  amperes  A.  C.  to  the  arc, 
hut  we  cannot  always  get  such  a  transformer  on  short 
notice,  therefore  the  illustration  Fig.  24  should  be  kept 
in  mind  as  one  of  the  "tricks  in  the  trade"  which  all 
up-to-date  operators  should  l)e  on  to  in  case  of  an 
emergency. 

32 — Is  it  possible  to  use  a  1 10  Ans.  —  W  i  t  h  220 
volt,  25  to  30  ampere  rheostat  volts  on  the  line  and 
as  illustrated  in  Fig.  20  on  220  with  an  arc  which,  on 
volt  line?  If  so,  state  under  a  pinch,  we  can  main- 
what  condition  and  what  the  tain  at  a  voltage  of  60 
result  will  be.  to  65  on  such  a  high 

line  voltage,  it  is  nec- 
essary to  have  a  voltage  drop  in  a  rheostat  equal  to  65 
subtracted  from  220  or  155  volts. 

On  a  110  volt  line  we  know  that  the  ordinary  rheo- 
stats for  an  arc  are  based  upon  an  arc  drop  of  50  volts 
s(i  that  the  voltage  in  the  resistance  is  equal  to  50  sub- 
tracted from  110  or  a  total  of  60  volts. 

If  we  take  two  rheostats  intended  for  110  volt  opera- 
tion witii  one  arc  in  series  we  hnd  that  the  voltage  across 
tlie  resistances  will  be  120,  and  if  the  voltage  across  the 
are  is  63  the  total  voltage  drop  of  the  arc  and  resistance 
is  185  volts. 

In  other  words,  on  a  220  volt  circuit  with  two  110 
volt  rheostats  in  series  with  the  arc  we  would  have  a 
total  drop  of  185  which  subtracted  from  220  leaves  35 
volts  to  be  accounted  for  providing  the  amperes  are 
maintained  the  same  in  all  instances.  This  proves  to 
you  that  under  normal  conditions  it  is  not  practical  to 
take  two  rheostats  intended  for  110  volt  operation  for 
one  arc  and  connect  them  in  series  for  220  volts  at  the 
same  amperes,  but  you  should  have  three  rheostats  of 
the  110  volt  kind  in  series. 

Going  back  to  our  original  proposition  of  making  use 
of  a  rheostat  as  illustrated  in  Fig.  20  on  a  220  volt  circuit 
we  find  that  by  operating  the  arc  at  65  volts  we  require 
a  155  volt  drop  in  the  rheostat.  One  section  of  rheostat, 
Fig.  20  offers  a  drop  of  about  60  volts,  therefore  the 
other  section  if  connected  in  series  with  it  will  offer  a 
drop  of  120  volts  which,  if  deducted  from  the  155  volt 
drop  required,  leaves  a  balance  of  35  volts  which  has 
to  be  taken  eare  of  by  additional  resistance  equal  to 
this  drop  or  I)y  allowing  an  increase  in  the  current  flow 
throuyh  the  circuit. 


Fig.  23.  You  will  observe  that  in  that  case,  for  con- 
venience sake,  one  of  the  line  wires  is  connected  to  the 
center  of  the  rheostat  which  then  becomes  one  of  100 
ampere  capacity  allowing  50  amperes  through  each  side. 

Another  use  to  which  this  rheostat  may  be  put  is  il- 
lustrated in  Fig.  24  in  which  one  arc  may  be  operated 
at  100  amperes  by  merely  connecting  one  line  wire  to 
the  center  of  the  rheostat  and  connecting  the  other  two 
ends  together  to  one  of  the  carbons  of  the  arc  lamp. 
This  latter  combination  will  in  many  instances  be  of 
great  value  especially  where  A.  C.  is  used  and  where 
no  special  means  are  provided  for  the  control  of  the  arc. 
Usually  an  A.  C.  arc  is  supplied  by  a  transformer  or 
Electric  Economizer  of  some  kind  which  delivers  from 
40  to  60  amperes  A.  C.  to  the  arc. 

For  dense  pictures,  where  great  brilliancy  is  required, 
or  where  the  distance  is  more  than  90  or  100  feet,  it  be- 
comes a  great  problem  to  project  a  picture  with  A.  C.  at 


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FIVE    HUNDRED    STYLES    IIS    STEEL  CEILINGS 
GIVE  EXHIBITORS  BIG  CHOICE 

THE  Berger  Manufacturing  Company,  of  Canton,  Ohio,  an- 
nounces that  its  business  in  supplying  steel  ceilings,  of  which 
they  have  five  hundred  designs,  the  finishing  of  proscenium  arches. 
l)Ox  and  balcony  fronts  with  ornamental  sheet  steel  has  increased 
greatly  within  recent  months. 

'riii<  lias  been  fhic  to  the  desire  on  tile  ])art  of  theatre  biiildtTs. 


A  MOTION  PICTURE  THEATRE  EQUIPPED  WITH  A  STEEL  CEILING 

architects  and  owners  to  make  tiieir  bouses  more  sanitary,  fire- 
proof and  safe. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  and  important  facts  is  tliat  designs 
(jf  any  kind  can  lie  liad  at  an\  time.  ,\11  styles  of  architecture 
have  been  followed  in  detail  and  that  of  various  periods  ct)pied 
abst)lutel\-. 

This  makes  it  interesting  to  people  who  are  remodebng  and 
need  finished  material  whicli  shall  correspond  with  the  architecture 
of  the  interior  or  exterior  of  their  houses. 


OPERATION   AND    CARE    OF  DIRECT-CLRRENT 

MOTORS 

By  Herbert  W.  Andem 

OPERATORS    l)a\ing    motor-generator    econoniizcr.s  in- 
stalled should  observe  the  following  simple  directions  ir 
the  operation  of  these  outlits. 

When  starting  direct-current  motors  be  sure  that  the 
rheostat  arm  is  in  the  (^ff  position.  Then  close  the  main 
switch. 

Move  lever  of  starting  rheostat  lirmly  on  to  the  lirst  ci>n- 
tact-point,  and  hold  it  there  two  or  three  seconds  to  allow 
the  motor  armature  to  accelerate  slowly;  then  move  rheostat 
lever  slowly  from  one  contact  to  the  next  until  it  is  in  the 
short  circuit  position,  where  it  will  be  held  by  the  retaining 
magnet. 

When  stopping  a  motor,  simp!}-  open  liie  main  switch  with 
a  quick  mo\ement  to  prevent  an  arc  forming  when  breaking 
the  circuit. 

To  insure,  the  best  operation,,  a  systematic  inspection  should 
be  made  at  least  once  a  week.  The  (mints  to  be  gi\  eii  special 
attention  are  as  follows: 

Cleanliness. — See  that  both  interior  and  exterior  of  motor 
are  kept  free  from  water  or  dirt  of  any  description.  The 
exterior  frame  can  be  wiped  off,  while  a  small  hand-bellows 
w-ill  serve  to  clean  the  interior  parts  and  the  windings. 

Bearings. — See  that  excessive  heating  and  wear  of  all  bear- 
ings are  prevented  by  proper  lubrication  and  belt  tension 
When  linings  of  bearings  Iiecome  unduly  worn,  they  must  be 
replaced  by  new  ones  promptly. 

Oil  Wells  and  Rings. — See  that  oil  wells  are  filled  with  a 
.good  qualitx  of  clean  mineral  oil  nearlj-  to  the  top  of  the 
over-flow  hole  of  the  oil  filler,  .\fter  the  first  week's  run  the 
oil  should,  under  the  average  working  conditions,  be  drained 
';ut  about  every  sixty  days,  and  replaced  by  fresh,  clean  oil. 
The  drainage  j)lug  should  be  red-leaded  or  shellaced,  and  se- 
curely ti.iflitcned.  to  prexeiit  gr;idual  leakage  from  the  oil 
reservoir.  The  oil  rings  should  moxi-  freely  atid  carr\  sul- 
licient  oil  up  to  tlic  bearin.gs. 


Brushes. — Sec  that  a  free  movement  of  the  brushes  in 
their  holders  is  maintained  at  all  times.  The  brushes  should 
also  .make  a  firm  contact  across  the  full  face  of  the  brush, 
and  bear  firmly  against  the  commutator.  As  the  brush  wears 
down  the  adjustable  spring  tension  should  be  moved  up  to 
lake  up  this  lessening  of  the  tension  on  the  brushes. 

C:ommutator.— See  that  the  commutator  is  kept  clean  and 
retams  a  i)olished  surface.  Ordinarily  the  commutator  will 
only  require  occasional  wiping  with  a  piece  of  light  canvas  or 
non-linting  substance  very  slightly  coated  with  vaseline,  if 
it  becomes  necosary  to  true  up  the  commutator;  or,  replace 
lirushes.  these  should  be  given  the  utmost  attention  to  get 
them  in  the  original  condition  of  surface  anrl  brush  contact. 

Rheostats  and  switches  should  be  kept  clean  and  points  of 
contact  occasionally  slightly  lubricated  with  vaseline.  .An 
occasional  drop  of  oil  should  be  applied  to  the  stud  on  whifh 
the  rheostat  arm  swings. 

The  above  simple  suggestions  and  instructions,  if  rigidly  at- 
tended to.  will  prevent  trouble  developing  later.  The  old 
adage  of  "An  ounce  of  prevention  is  worth  a  pound  of  cure" 
can  well  be  heeded  by  operators  in  charge  of  electrical  ma- 
cliinery.    Ft  is  the  little  things  that  count  in  the  long  run. 


CAMERON  MOTION  PICTURE  PROJECTOR  IS 
TAKEN  OVER  BY  H.  B.  COLES 

I  T  will  be  of  interest  to  the  trade  to  know  that  H.  B.  Coles,  who 
*■  has  been  connected  with  the  sales  management  of  two  of  the 
largest  motion  picture  projection  machine  companies  in  the  in- 
dustry, has  organized  his  own  company. 

The  new  organization  is  known  as  the  Coles  Picture  Machine 
C"orporati<in   and   has  been   started   for  the  express  purpose  of 

manufacturing  and 
selling  the  Cameron 
motion  picture  pr^  - 
jector. 

Knowing  the  saU  ~ 
end  of  the  projec- 
tion machine  indus- 
try as  well  as  Ik 
does,  Mr.  Cole- 
should  be  in  a  posi- 
tion to  do  big  thin.!:- 
with  his  companx. 

At  the  present 
time  there  are  in 
use  about  twent\- 
live  Cameron  ma- 
chines which  havt 
stood  up  under  the 
most  severe  tests  for 
about  three  j-ears 
in  various  tiieatre- 
where  the  operati'r- 
were  not  specially 
instructed  in  their 
care.  In  all  cases 
the  machines  liave 
demonstrated  their 
ability  to  stand  up  anil  gi\e  satisfaction,  which  is  the  jirime  re- 
<Hiirement  in  an>  projection  machine. 

.Mr.  Coles  is  not  reads  yet  to  state  his  selling  plan,  but  say- 
that  it  will  be  somewhat  different  from  anything  which  has  ever 
been  tried  in  the  past. 

.\t  a  later  date,  the  Cameron  projector  will  be  thoroughl> 
discussed  and  illustrated  in  the  columns  of  .MoTio.x  PuTrRK 
Xicws  for  the  benefit  of  the  trade. 


K.    B.  COLES 


TWO  THEATRES  EQUIPPED   WITH  TWENTIETH 
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Danielson.  Wilton,  X.  I).,  for  a  Twentieth  Century,  220  volt,  D.  t". 
motor  generator-economizer  and  also  for  a  three  phase  .\.  C.-D.  t  ■ 
X)  to  70  ampere  nuitor  generator  outtil  to  go  to  I'",  (i.  .Spencer. 
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Who  Will  Answer  All  Questions  You  Send  in,  Ao  Matter  How  Simple  or  How  Difficult 


A  PRACTICAL  OPERATOR  SHOULD  BE  A  MEMBER 
OF  EVERY  EXAMINING  BOARD  ■ 

Local  No.  626,  Nashville,  Tcnn.—Loca'  A  o.  626,  /.  A.  T.  S.  E. 
and  M.  P.  M.  O..  requests  a  favor  from  you,  as  an  authority  on 
motion  picture  operatin'^. 

Tliis  city  has  an  ordinance,  requiring  all  operators  to  stand  an 
examination,  and  have  a  license. 

The  examining  board  consists  of  a  building  inspector,  a  fire- 
chief  and  an  electrical  inspector. 

Our  organization  has  been  in  a  violent  controversy  unth  the 
management  of  this  city,  in  an  effort  to  elevate  our  profession,  and 
ive  find  the  examining  board  is  in  direct  opposition  to  us.  We 
feel  that  a  practical  operator  should  be  placed  on  the  examining 
board. 

Ans.— The  examination  and  licensing  of  motion  picture  operators 
by  the  municipalities  has  now  become  effective  in  practically  all 
of  the  larger  and  medium  sized  cities.  You  yourself,  have  natu- 
rally, by  forming  your  local  organization,  taken  a  step  in  the 
right  direction  with  a  view  to  not  only  secure  for  your  organiza- 
tion the  protection  it  deserves,  but  also  to  insure  that  only  good 
and  reHable  operators  secure  positions. 

in  order  to  become  a  member  of  an  organization  like  yours.  I 
understand  that  an  operator  has  to  be  a  real  operator,  that  is,  he 
must  know  how  to  operate  and  take  care  of  a  modern  macliine 
booth.  You  naturally  examine  your  own  operators  when  they 
become  members  of  your  organization  and  by  belonging  to  your 
organization  the  members  will  of  course  be  benefited  by  any 
information  desired  on  the  subject  of  operating,  as  there  will 
always  be  someone  in  the  organization  who  knows  what  another 
one  may  not  understand  or  know  about. 

It  goes  without  saying  that  a  body  of  operators  knows  more 
about  the  business  than  outsiders,  and  among  the  outsiders  I 
naturally  class  the  city  officials. 

There  is  no  doubt  in  my  mind  that  on  the  board  there  should  be 
a  representative  of  the  fire  department  and  the  electrical  bureau. 
It  is  not  at  all  clear  to  me  that  a  representative  of  the  building 
department  understands  anything  about  picture  projection,  and  I 
really  think  that  the  building  inspector  could  be  excluded.  In  his 
place  there  should  be  put  jl  first-class,  well  informed  operator,  so 
that  the  board  should,  in  my  opinion,  consist  of  three  men,  one  an 
experienced  motion  picture  operator;  the  other,  the  fire  chief;  and 
the  third  one  an  electrical  inspector,  or  other  representative 
thoroughly  informed  about  the  electrical  equipment  in  an  operating 
booth. 

If  a  practical  operator  is  not  on  the  board  it  appears  to  me 
that  many  questions  will  be  asked  and  require  an  answer  which 
should  not  necessarily  come  within  the  knowledge  of  an  ordinary 
operator.  It  also  appears  to  me  that  many  questions,  which  are 
the  most  pertinent  and  important  ones  from  an  operator's  point 
of  view,  considering  safety  and  perfect  projection,  will  be  over- 
looked. 

It  is  easy  to  study  and  memorize  a  few  answers  as  to  the  care 
of  a  moving  picture  machine,  the  connections  required  for  differ- 
ent kinds  of  rheostats  and  transformers,  the  care  of  the  film  and 
the  necessary  precautions  in  handling  the  film.  They  are  naturally 
the  questions  which  will  be  put  to  a  prospective  operator  by  a 
board. 

From  my  point  of  view  it  is  alltogether  wrong  to  give  an 
operator  a  license  just  because  he  knows  how  to  prevent  fire  and 
how  to  connect  the  machine,  which  are  the  only  points  which  con- 


cern the  city.  An  operator  should  not  receive  a  license  until  he 
knows  how  to  project  pictures  in  addition  to  the  qualifications  re- 
c|uired  by  the  city  department,  and  that  is,  in  my  opinion,  the 
main  reason  why  a  practical  expert  on  motion  picture  projection 
should  be  a  member  of  the  examining  board  in  every  city  and  town. 

.\ccording  to  the  conditions  which  exist  in  many  places,  anybody 
who  can  answer  a  few  questions  concerning  the  safety  of  the 
equipment  and  what  he  would  do  in  case  oi  a  fire,  can  get  a  license. 
I  pity  the  manager  who  gets  such  an  operator  unless  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  a  reputable  and  responsible  union,  or  is  in  addition  examined 
by  an  expert  operator  or  similar  authority. 

It  has  come  to  my  attention  that  in  many  of  the  moderately  sized 
or  smaller  towns  in  particular,  the  electrical  inspectors,  in  order 
to  show  their  authority  and  apparent  wisdom,  ask  questions  of 
operators  which  really  do  not  concern  either  the  safety  or  prac- 
tical side  of  good  projection.  These  questions  are  often  asked  in 
a  roundabout  way  to  confuse  and  humiliate  the  applicant. 

There  can  be  nothing  harder  for  an  operator  applying  for  a 
license  than  to  meet  such  an  inspector.  We  have  all  been  before 
our  school  teacher  sometime  or  other,  and  I  think  we  can  re- 
member the  day  when  we  had  to  stand  an  examination.  You 
admit  we  were  all  a  little  nervous.  At  that  time  it  was  only  a 
matter  of  feeling  and  humiliation  if  you  did  not  answer  the  ques- 
tion correctly.  The  possibility  may  have  been  that  you  had  to 
stay  in  the  same  class  another  year. 

^\'hen  you  take  an  examination  as  a  motion  picture  operator 
then  your  bread  and  butter  is  back  of  the  proposition.  If  you  do 
not  pass,  due  to  what  one  might  call  the  meanness  or  incompetency 
of  an  inspector,  you  stand  a  good  show  of  never  getting  an 
operating  job. 

I  know-  many  operators  able  to  put  on  good  pictures  who  cannot 
answer  all  electrical  questions  put  to  them,  especially  if  twisted. 

The  judgment  of  an  experienced  operator  must,  in  accordance 
to  my  point  of  view,  always  be  called  upon  if  justice  is  to  be  done 
by  an  examining  board  of  a  municipality  to  motion  picture 
operators. 


LEYS 


WANTS  TO  KNOW  IF  HE  MIST  CHANGE 
AND  ENLARGE  CURTAIN 

H.  B.  O.,  Devils  Lake,  N.  Dak.— ffV  ."v  taking  the  liberty  of 
writing  you  for  a  little  information. 

Our  curtain  is  now  9x  12,  a  brick  Zivll.  but  iL'e  can  enlarge  it  to 
10x13.  The  distance  from  the  aperture  plate  to  the  screen  is  6S 
feet.  AY2  inches,  and  we  are  using  Hi-c-inch  lens.  Would  it  be  to 
our  advantage  to  enlarge  this  curtain,  and  xvould  it  be  necessary  to 
change  lens? 

Ans. — A  brick  wall,  if  it  is  thoroughly  dry  and  seasoned  before 
you  apply  the  finishing  coat  upon  which  the  picture  is  to  be  pro- 
jected, makes  a  very  satisfactory  screen.  In  this  manner  a  per- 
fectly flat  surface  is  obtained  and  if  the  surface  is  stippled  or 
roughened  and  then  the  compound,  which  should  preferably  be 
white  with  a  bluish  tint,  is  applied  when  dn,-  you  will  have  a  soft 
and  perfect  surface,  by  which  the  picture  will  be  reflected. 

In  many  instances  the  surface  of  a  wall  screen  is  injured  and 
turns,  showing  spots  and  blotches,  due  to  the  fact  that  the  wall 
was  not  thoroughly  dried  out  before  the  finishing  coat  was  applied. 

Your  9x12  screen  is  a  good  ordinary  size  for  a  small  theatre 
not  over  25  feet  in  width  and  where  the  distance  is  not  more  than 
75  feet.  However,  if  your  theatre  is  wider  and  if  j-ou  have  plenty 
of  height.  I  believe  a  lOx  13  picture  would  look  better. 


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Your  5-inch  lens,  if  that  is  the  equivalent  focus  of  it,  will  give 
approximately  a  picture  9.1  feet  high  by  12.2  feet  wide  at  a  dis- 
tance of  68  feet.  If  you  desire  this  very  same  lens  of  5-inch 
focus  to  project  a  picture  10  feet  high  by  13  feet  wide,  then  it 
will  be  necessary  for  you  to  move  j'our  picture  machine  or  aperture 
plate  about  6  feet  further  back,  so  that  your  distance  from  the 
aperture  plate  to  the  screen  will  be  approximately  74  feet. 

If  you  cannot  increase  the  distance  between  the  machine  and  the 
screen  then  you  must  secure  a  new  lens  of  4^-inch  equivalent 
focus,  which  will  at  68  feet  project  a  picture  approximately  9.7 
feet  high  by  12.9  feet  wide.  As  your  distance  is  4j4  inches  more 
than  68  feet,  the  4^-inch  lens  will  give  you  a  picture  practically 
10  X  13. 

If  your  theatre  is  not  more  than  25  feet  wide  I  would  be  tempted 
to  keep  the  picture  9  x  12  as  it  now  is  with  your  5-inch  lens. 

A  good  curtain  compound  applied  carefully  will  give  you  a  good 
finish  and  then  after  the  machine  has  been  set  secure!}-,  after 
centering  the  light  through  the  aperture  plate  on  the  screen 
focusing  the  outline  of  the  aperture  plate,  the  outline  of  the  light 
should  be  marked  off  on  the  white  wall  and  then  the  outside 
margin  should  be  rilled  in  with  dull  black,  so  as  to  come  inside  of 
the  outline  j  ou  made  about  one  inch  all  the  way  around. 

Remember  that  all  surfaces  for  screens  and  the  back  outline 
should  be  matte  or  dull,  not  shiny.  The  only  screen  surface 
which  is  permitted  to  be  of  a  shiny  or  polished  nature  is  the 
metallic  coated  screen  where  high  contrast  and  great  brilliancy  is 
the  chief  object. 


BUFFALO  OPERATORS  TO  HOLD  THEIR  DANCE 
NOVEMBER  17 

THE  Moving  Picture  Machine  Operators'  Protective  Union,  Lo- 
cal No.  229,  Buflfalo,  N.  Y.,  will  hold  its  annual  spot  light  and 
novelty  dance  at  the  German-American  hall  Wednesday,  November 
17. 

The  event  is  always  attended  by  members  of  the  theatrical  pro- 
fession in  Buffalo  and  the  near-by  towns.  It  is  expected  that  this 
year  the  afifair  will  bring  out  in  full  force  up-State  operators  and 
their  friends. 


SPEED    CONTROLLER    MACHINES    IN  HOUSES 
SHOWING  TRIANGLE  PICTURES 

■"THE  Knickerbocker  theatre,  New  York  City,  showing  Triangle 
A     pictures,  the  Liberty  in  Cleveland  and  the  house  controlled  by 
Manager  Kemble  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  are  using  arc  controller  made 
by  the  Speed  Controller  Company,  Inc..  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Kemble  has  used  the  controllers  all  summer  in  projecting 
"The  Birth  of  a  Nation"  at  the  Brighton  Beach  music  hall,  and  will 
install  them  at  the  Crescent  for  the  opening  of  that  house  with 
Triangle  pictures. 


SPOKANE  A  CLEARING  HOUSE  FOR  OPERATORS 

A  CCORDING  to  City  Electrical  Inspector  W.  A.  Davis,  Spo- 
**•  kane  is  fast  becoming  a  clearing  house  for  motion  picture 
operators  of  the  Inland  Empire.  Since  the  Spokane  city  ordinance 
was  passed,  requiring  operators  to  pass  examinations  and  secure 
cit>-  certificates,  seventj'-one  operators  have  been  licensed. 

Of  this  number  many  were  from  cities  outside  of  Spokane.  They 
believe  possession  of  certificates  will  add  to  their  ability  to  secure 
positions. 


GERALDINE  FARRAR   AND  BYRON  CHANDLER 
BUY  PRIZE  WINNING  DOGS 

pERALDINE  FARRAR  and  Byron  Chandler,  former  hus- 
band  of  Grace  LaRue,  and  now  interested  in  the  picture 
business,  being  president  of  the  Feaster  Film  Feed  Company,  were 
the  purchasers  of  the  winning  Boston  terriers  at  the  Somerville. 
Mass.,  terrier  show,  held  on  October  22.  Miss  Farrar  secured 
Woodrow,  while  Mr.  Chandler  obtained  Matchmaker. 

SHOULD  HAVE  BEEN  TWENTY-FIVE  AMPERES 
INSTEAD  OF  FIFTY  AMPERES 

IN  the  issue  of  October  30,  there  was  an  error  made  in  figure  21, 
*  on  page  443.  Instead  of  50  amperes,  as  was  stated,  the  strength 
of  the  current  should  have  been  given  as  25,  as  mentioned  in  the 
text  directly  below  figure  21. 


^  clear  picture 

is  as  essential  as  a  good 
scenario.  Because  the 
basic  product  is  right 
the  clearest  pictures  are 
on  Eastman  Film.  Iden- 
tifiable by  the  Uencil 
mark  in  the  margin. 

EASTMAN  KODAK  CO., 
ROCHESTER,  N.  Y. 


The  best  pictures 
are  transverted 
by  a 

HERTNER 

Irani^rteK 


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WHEN  A  DYNAMO  FAILS  TO  GENERATE;  REASONS 
AND  REMEDIES  FOR  THE  CONDITION 

By  Herbert  W.  Andem 

THIS  case  arises  more  frequently  with  a  small  sized  dynamo 
than  with  a  large  unit.  It  is  usually  due  to  the  inability  of 
a  self-exciting  machine  to  "build-up,"  as  it  is  expressed,  its  field 
magnetism. 

At  the  start  of  running  a  dynamo  to  generate  requires  a  certain 
amount  of  magnetism  to  be  present,  or  retained,  in  the  iron  pole 
pieces.  This  is  spoken  of  as  "residual  magnetism,"  and  when  thii 
has  been  lost  or  destroyed  in  some  way  the  dynamo  will  not  "pick 
up"  its  voltage. 

When  the  residual  magnetism  is  too  weak  or  has  been  de- 
stroyed, several  reasons  can  be  given  for  this  to  happen.  Some 
of  the  more  usual  ones  are  a  heavy  vibration  or  jar  to  the  machine. 

A  small  outfit  may  receive  a  heavy  jar  from  a  fall  when  shipping 
it  from  place  to  place.  The  earth's  magnetism  will  affect  it  also, 
at  times.  While  the  machine  is  rruning  and  the  field  circuit  be- 
comes broken  or  open,  the  strong  current  in  the  armature  will 
react  on  the  field  magnetism,  and  either  neutralize  it  or  reverse 
its  polarity.  A  single  machine  is  not  so  apt  to  have  its  field  cur- 
rent reversed  as  when  a  dynamo  is  connected  with  others. 

When  an  operator  finds  the  dynamo  fails  to  build-up,  it  is  ad- 
vised to  at  first  clean  thoroughly  the  commutator,  brushes  and 
arms  holding  the  brush-holders  to  the  machine  before  sizing  up 
the  case  of  one  of  lost  magnetism.  After  doing  these  things  and 
the  machine  fails  to  generate,  then  he  may  best  look  over  all  the 
connections,  especially  the  clamped  connections  around  the  ma- 
chine, to  see  whether  vibration  has  not  caused  some  to  become 
loose  or  even  opened  entirely. 
Test  for  "Lost"  Magnetism 

If  the  residual  magnetism  has  been  lost,  a  test  will  show  it  by 
holding  a  nail  or  piece  of  iron  against  the  iron  pole  face  of  one 
of  the  field  coils.  If  the  iron  does  not  attract  the  piece  held  up 
to  it,  the  magnetism  has  either  been  too  weakened  or  lost. 

It  is  then  necessary  to  remagnetize  the  fields  by  sending  a  cur- 
rent through  the  field  coils.  This  may  be  done  by  connecting  to  a 
source  of  electricity  from  another  dj-namo  or  battery  of  sufficient 
size. 

If  it  fails  to  "pick-up"  after  the  first  application  of  this  current, 
then  try  again  by  reversing  the  connections  to  the  field-coils,  since 
the  magnets  may  have  enough  polarity  to  prevent  them  from 
building  up  in  the  direction  first  tried. 

Also  it  may  be  suggested  here  to  shift  the  brushes  backward 
a  little  to  make  the  armature  magnetism  assist  that  of  the  field. 

If  the  magnet  holds  the  iron  held  to  it  when  not  running,  and 
then  fails  to  hold  this  iron  when  it  is  running,  the  field  connection 
should  be  reversed.  This  may  be  done  by  either  changing  the 
two  armature  wires  or  the  field  leads  from  the  armature,  but  do 
not  change  both. 

Building  Up  the  Field  With  a  Battery 

After  each  of  the  above  changes  the  field  may  have  to  be  built 
up  with  a  battery  or  other  current,  because  the  condition  in  these 
cases  tend  to  destroy  whatever  residual  magnetisrn  may  have  been 
present. 

If  the  external  cricuit  is  short-circuited  or  the  main  switch  from 
the  machine  is  closed  and  the  two  carbons  are  together,  it  will 
also  cause  a  dynamo  to  fail  to  pick-up  its  voltage ;  especially  so 
with  a  shunt  wound  machine.  A  series  d>niamo  will  be  assisted 
in  building  up  by  a  temporary  short  circuit  to  the  leads  near  or 
at  the  dynamo. 

It  often  happens  that  the  brushes  are  not  set  at  the  proper  point; 
in  fact,  they  may  be  set  exactly  wrong,  so  that  the  d>-namo  is  in- 
capable of  generating  any  current  whatever.  This  trouble  is 
usually  due  to  the  fact  that  the  proper  position  for  the  brushes 
is  not  the  same  for  all  kinds  of  machines. 

Almost  all  ring  armatures  and  some  drum  armatures  require 
the  brushes  to  be  set  opposite  the  "space"  between  the  pole-pieces. 
On  the  other  hand  some  armatures  are  wound  so  that  the  brushes 
have  to  be  set  in  lines  with  the  centres  of  the  pole-pieces.  Large 
machines  are  generally  made  this  wa^-. 

Flexible  Leads  to  Connections 

It  affords  an  easier  position  to  ,<:ee  the  set  to  the  brushes  at  a 
glance,  when  in  alignment  with  the  poles.  It  also  gives  longer 
flexible  leads  to  the  connections  to  the  commutator  segments  in 
case  of  a  break  at  this  point. 


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The  fact  is  the  proper  position  of  the  brushes  depends  upon  the 
particular  winding  and  internal  connections,  and  no  one  should 
even  state  exactly  where  to  set  the  brushes  until  he  is  familiar 
with  the  particular  type  of  machine. 

The  proper  position  of  brushes  is  the  same  for  both  generators 
and  motors,  except  that  in  the  former  the  brushes  are  given  a 
"lead,"  meaning  shifted  a  little  in  the  direction  of  rotation,  whereas 
motor  brushes  should  be  set  a  little  backward. 

The  shifting  is  necessitated  by  armature  reaction,  which  dis- 
torts the  field  magnetism. 


THE  STRAND,  1,000  HOUSE  IN  LEXINGTON,  KY., 
OPENS  WITH  'ISLE  OF  REGENERATION'' 

THE  opening  of  the  new  Strand  theatre,  Lexington,  Ky., 
on  October  15,  was  marked  by  three  capacity  audiences 
who  freely  expressed  their  delight  with  this  new  home  of  the 
screen  drama.  The  theatre  was  opened  with  "The  Isle  of  Regenera- 
tion." The  building  was  designed  by  Joseph  and  Joseph,  of 
Louisville,  in  Italian  Renaissance,  with  white  enamel  brick 
trimmed  in  stone. 

The  main  auditorium  seats  one  thousand  and  the  comfort 
of  the  chairs  will  be  a  great  drawing  card  for  the  house.  The 
seats  are  so  arranged  that  there  will  be  plenty  of  room  to 
avoid  anyone  being  disturbed  by  late  comers.  The  balcony 
will  accommodate  four  hundred,  of  which  two  hundred  may 
be  placed  in  the  mezzanine  boxes. 

A  semi-indirect  lighting  system  is  used  throughout.  Rows 
of  air-vents  at  the  top  and  near  the  bottom  of  the  main  audi- 
torium afford  a  change  of  air  by  gravity  to  supplement  the 
mechanical  ventilation  arrangement.  The  music  for  the  the- 
atre will  be  furnished  by  a  pipe  organ. 


TEXAS    THEATRE    REOPENED    BY    MAN  WHO 
BECAME  EXHIBITOR  AT  THIRTEEN 

JOHN  MORRIS,  JR.,  reopened  John's  theatre,  Jacksonville, 
Texas,  on  October  6.  The  house  originally  began  business  m 
September,  1908,  and  stayed  open  continuously  until  July  15,  1914. 
During  that  time  the  theatre  remained  under  his  management.  On 
July  15  Mr.  Morris  closed  the  house  for  the  summer  and  opened 
an  airdome.  La  Palma.  This  he  leased  a  short  time  afterwards. 
It  was  closed  by  the  lessee  and  never  reopened. 

Mr.  Morris  is  well  known  in  film  circles  :n  Dallas,  from  close 
business  relations  covering  many  years.  He  started  in  business 
at  the  early  age  of  thirteen  and  will  not  reach  his  twenty-first 
birthday  until  this  November.  Mr.  Morris  has,  therefore,  prac- 
tically owned  and  run  John's  theatre  for  the  past  seven  years. 


PUPIL  OF  LHEVINE  IN  BERLIN  ENGAGED  BY 
PHOTOPLAY  THEATRE  IN  WASHINGTON 

HARRY  G.  ROBINSON,  pipe  organ  soloist  at  the  Casino  and 
Clemmer  theatres,  Spokane,  has  gone  to  North  Yakima  to 
play  in  another  photoplay  house. 

He  was  the  first  pipe  organ  player  in  a  theatre  in  Spokane.  Last 
year  he  went  to  Berlin  and  took  a  course  under  Josef  Lhevine. 


The  Quality  Carbons 
of  the  World 

Specially  Constructed  Negative 
with  Copper  Coated  Core 

Below  is  what  another  operator  writes  us: 

"I  take  pleasure  in  stating  I  have  tried  your  carbons, 
which  I  find  give  a  good  white  light  and  burn  longer  than 
any  carbons  I  have  used  for  the  last  few  years. 

"Am  an  operator  of  12  years  experience  and  can  say  I 
never  used  a  better  carbon  for  moving  picture  arc. 

"Hope  you  keep  up  the  good  work." 

We  have  received  sample  and  repeat  orders  by  every 
mail  from  operators  and  managers  all  over  this  country. 
Have  we  received  one  from  you? 

^  X  12  plain  cored,  $10.00  per  hundred  carbons 

^  X  12  plain  cored,    $7.50  per  hundred  carbons 

5<  X  6  copper  coated  cored,  $3.75  per  hundred  carbons 

J4  X  6  copper  coated  cored,  $2.75  per  hundred  carbons 

If  your  dealer  cannot  supply  you,  send  us  his  name 
and  we  will  fill  sample  orders  in  lots  of  fifty  each  in  all 
the  above  sizes,  providing  cash  accompanies  the  order 
in  full. 

Watch  our  weekly  advertisements.  They  will  inter- 
est you. 

JONES  &  CAMMACK 

SOLE  DISTRIBUTORS  FOR  THE  UNITED  STATES 


12  Bridge  Street 


New  York  City 


GOOD  PICTURES 

can  only  be  had  with  the  aid  of  a  good  projection  sur- 
face and 

A  good  projection  surface  can  only  be  had  when 
properly  prepared. 

Detroit  Theatres  swear  by  the  Masterlite  screens 
and  Detroit  has  GOOD  PICTURES. 

There  are  still  some  territories  open  for  dealers. 

Write,  wire  or  phone. 

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Building  and  Furnishings 


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Edited  by  Nathan  Myers 


Should  a  Theatre  Property  Have  Other  Revenue? 

The  Question  Whether  Stores  and  Offices  Are  to  Be  Part  of  the  Structure  Discussed — In  Some  Cases  Architect  and 
Owner  Have  Considered  the  Matter  with  Great  Care,  Only  to  Find  that  Time  Had  Decided 

That  They  Were  in  the  Wrong 


THE  question  is  often  asked  whether  or  not  a  property  upon 
which  a  theatre  is  to  be  built,  should  be  devoted  entirely  to 
•  .  its  main  purpose  or  whether  additional  revenue  should  be 
Sought,  through  the  provision  in  the  plans  of  stores  and  offices. 

The  writer  has  known  owner  and  architect  to  propound  over 
this  problem  for  an  unusual  period  before  a  final  decision  was 
reached,  and  after  using  their  best  judgment,  to  have  Father  Time 
show  them  in  the  wrong. 

We  have  previously  noted  that  every  detail  of  each  individual 
problem  must  be  studied  by  itself  and  this  is  no  exception.  Per- 
haps the  greatest  reason  to  give  any  consideration  to  provide  stores 
and  offices,  either,  or  both,  would  be  making  it  easier  to  obtain  a 
suitable  mortgage  on  the  finished  property. 

It  is  a  well  known  fact  that  the  insurance  companies  and  savings 
banks  who  are  in  the  best  position  to  grant  large  mortgages,  do  not 
look  upon  theatre  properties  as  the  safest  of  investments,  and 
therefore  look  askance  at  any  application  for  mortgage.  It  is 
further  true  that  many  will  not  grant  a  mortgage  on  such  proper- 
ties even  for  the  smallest  percentage  of  the  true  value  of  the 
same. 

We  ma\  argue  our  heads  ofi  that  fewer  theatre  properties  have 
in  the  past  been  foreclosed  for  mortgage,  than  any  other  class  of 
property,  which  is  so.  But  that,  nevertheless,  will  not  change  the 
mind  of  money  lenders.  We  must  face  the  existing  conditions  and 
stop  theorizing,  therefore,  the  providing  of  at  least  a  certain 
amount  of  income,  outside  of  the  theatre  propert}-,  brings  the 
proposition  into  more  of  a  business  class,  and  a  mortgage  more 
readily  obtained. 

Additional  Income 

.Another  reason  for  such  provision  is  naturally  the  additional 
revenue.  It  is  the  writer's  opinion  that  where  ground  value  is 
not  of  great  moment,  where  increased  seating  capacity  is  obtained 
by  devoting  the  entire  property  to  the  theatre,  it  is  better  to 
eliminate  any  and  all  additional  tenants. 

The  extra  seats  thus  obtained,  even  if  filled  only  when  the  extra 
capacity  is  in  demand,  would  generally  more  than  pay  the  rental 
obtained  from  the  additional  tenants.  A  side  mention  may  be 
made  also  of  the  fact  of  the  lesser  cost  and  the  lesser  insurance 
rates,  that  would  result  from  the  more  simple  problem. 

The  theatre  tenant  would  not  be  bothered  with  the  difficulties  of 
administration  such  as  heat,  water,  etc.,  that  would  have  to  be 
solved,  in  the  more  complex  problem.  With  the  entire  occupancy 
of  the  land,  a  greater  space  for  advertising  matter  could  be  pro- 
vided and  the  whole  proposition  would  smack  more  of  the  show 
house.  We  have,  however,  at  times,  quite  a  different  condition  in 
large  cities.  The  value  of  the  land  in  the  centre  of  the  population 
is  so  excessive  that  it  is  not  advisable  right  at  the  start  to  burden 
the  theatre  with  a  first  high  cost  of  land  upon  which  interest  must 
be  paid  through  rental. 

Large  Plots  Not  Obtainable  in  Big  Cities 

On  the  other  hand,  at  times  large  parcels  of  ground  cannot  be 
purchased  in  the  centre  of  cities  at  any  cost.  .\  solution  has  often 
presented  itself  by  obtaining  a  large  parcel  of  ground  upon  the 
interior  of  a  city  block,  with  access  to  the  same  from  the  main 
street -through  a  narrow  strip  of  ground,  forming  the  main  en- 
trance. In  a  case  of  this  kind,  over  the  theatre  entrance  an  office 
fcuilding  thus  built  may  be  designed  to  great  advantage  and  to 


great  profit.  Such  a  building  if  handsomely  designed  is  of  ad- 
vertising value  to  the  show  house.  It  lends  interest  to  the  struc- 
ture and  the  top  story  of  such  office  structure  may  be  devoted  to 
a  roof  garden,  which  is  not  permitted  in  general,  by  the  building 
laws,  over  the  theatre  proper. 

Buildings  of  this  kind  may  be  found  in  most  of  our  larger  cities, 
the  Palace  theatre  in  New  York,  and  the  new  Proctor  theatre  in 
Newark,  are  examples  of  such  construction.  The  first  floor  of 
such  buildings  gives  to  the  theatre  a  large  and  long  lobby,  ac- 
commodating at  one  time  many  persons  awaiting  the  opening,  or 
the  change  of  the  show,  it  provides  good  space  for  lobby  display, 
and  a  central  ticket  office  far  more  convenient,  and  more  promi- 
nent than  the  recessed  compartment. 


PLAN    TO    LIMIT    THEATRES    /.\  BALTIMORE 
APPROVED  BY  EXHIBITORS 

CTEPS  are  to  be  taken  in  Baltimore  for  limiting  the  number  of 
motion  picture  houses  to  be  built  in  the  city.  This  proposed 
legislation  meets  with  the  hearty  approval  of  the  leading  exhibitors 
in  Baltimore.  As  a  matter  of  fact  it  is  verj-  likely  that  a  measure 
is  to  be  introduced  into  the  city  council,  instigated  by  some  of  the 
Baltimore  exhibitors.  There  is  a  feeling  that  there  are  now  too 
many  picture  theatres  in  the  city  for  the  good  of  the  business  and 
a  number  of  these  places  are  now  for  sale  without  buj-ers. 

President  O'Meara,  of  the  First  Branch  City  Council,  will  take 
up  with  City  Solicitor  Field  next  week  the  advisabilitj'  of  pre- 
paring an  ordinance  restricting  the  location  of  moving  picture  the- 
atres. He  is  doing  so  because  of  the  numerous  protests  against 
such  institutions  in  residential  sections. 

Mr.  O'Meara  has  ascertained  that  the  views  of  a  number  of  coun- 
cilmen  are  coincident,  and,  that  they  also  believe  that  the  situation 
could  be  relieved  by  restricting  the  theatres  to  business  streets  and 
to  blocks  where  the  majority  of  the  buildings  represent  a  business 
development. 

Because  of  the  increasing  number  of  ordinances  for  the  establish- 
ment of  moving  picture  theatres,  Citj-  Councilman  Tolson.  of  the 
sixteenth  ward,  is  contemplating  the  introduction  of  a  measure 
which  will  compel  the  building  of  the  places  within  six  months 
after  final  passage  of  the  permits. 

He  is  considering  this  step  also  because  of  a  knowledge  that  in 
some  instances  authority-  to  build  the  theatres  has  been  obtained, 
but  never  exercised. 

Mr.  Tolson  called  attention  to  the  possible  practice  of  peddling 
this  permit  after  it  had  been  obtained  from  the  council.  Such  a 
practice,  in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Tolson  and  other  councilmen  with 
whom  he  has  talked,  could  be  stopped  by  a  provision  in  moving- 
picture  ordinances  compelling  the  grantee  to  use  the  permit  within 
six  months.  Failing  such  progress,  he  would  have  the  permission 
automatically  repealed. 


PITTSBURGH  SUPPLY  DEALER  SEES  ENTERPRISE 

OPTICAL  PLANT 

I  UDWIG  HOMMEL.  a  supply  dealer  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  was 
^    in  Chicago  last  week. 

During  his  visit  he  was  taken  through  the  factory  of  the  Enter- 
prise Optical  Manufacturing  Company  and  thoroughly  investigated 

its  1916  model  Motiograph. 


Table  of  co-ntents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


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BOSSNER  LEAVES  THE  PARK,  BOSTON,  TO  OPEN 
THEATRE  IN  CAMBRIDGE 

WHEN  W.  Fred  Bossner's  four  months'  service  as  manager 
of  the  Park  theatre,  on  Washington  street,  Boston,  under 
the  joint  control  of  Paramount  and  the  Park  theatre  company, 
came  to  cin  end,  the  entire  corps  of  employes  assembled  in  the 
theatre  and  gave  him  the  surprise  of  his  life. 

To  begin  with,  Charles  Frank's  symphony  orchestra,  which  has 
been  a  big  feature  of  the  Park  program  under  Mr.  Bossner,  played 
a  special  selection  which  merged  into  "Auld  Lang  Syne,"  sung  by 
the  audience. 

Then  a  slide  was  flashed  on  the  screen  which  read : 

"MR.  BOSSNER— AU  REVOIR,  BUT  NOT  GOOD-BY." 

Lester  Bigwood,  head  usher  of  the  theatre,  made  a  speech  of 
presentation  and  handed  the  retiring  manager  a  bouquet  of  flowers, 
a  smoking  jacket,  a  meerschaum  pipe,  a  jar  of  tobacco,  and  from 
the  Park  theatre  company  a  box  of  cigars. 

Mr.  Bossner  expressed  regrets  that  circumstances  compelled  him 
to  leave  behind  him  such  a  loyal  band  of  workers,  each  one  of 
whom  had  ever  been  eager  to  help  him  raise  the  standard  of  the 
house. 

Mr.  Bossner  will  open  the  new  Inman  Square  theatre,  in  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.  He  had  made  elaborate  plans  for  putting  on  the 
Farrar  "Carmen''  film  November  1.  It  is  Understood  that  Para- 
mount will  still  be  represented  on  the  Park's  program  at  that  time, 
although  one  Paramount  release  has  been  given  up  for  a  General 
film,  the  first  of  whicii.  on  view  this  week,  is  "Inheritance,"  by 
Essanay. 

E.  L.  Knight,  of  Springfield,  formerly  manager  of  the  Bijou, 
in  that  city,  has  assumed  the  position  of  manager  under  the  Park 
theatre  company,  which  is  now  in  sole  control  of  the  house. 


KIMBALL     ORGANS     INSTALLED     IN  LOEWS 
ORPHEUM  THEATRE,  NEW  YORK  CITY,  AND 
IN  THE  GLOBE  THEATRE,  BOSTON 

THE  largest  theatre  organs  in  New  York  City  have  just  been 
completed  by  the  Kimball  Organ  Company  for  Loew's  Or- 
pheum  theatre.  The  instrument  is  a  marvel  in  theatre  organ  con- 
struction. Built  under  the  most  unsatisfactory  conditions  the  mu- 
sical results  obtainable  cannot  be  surpassed. 

This  organ  was  fourteen  months  under  construction.  Robert 
Elliot,  under  whose  personal  supervision  it  was  constructed  and 
brought  to  its  super-efficiency,  deserves  much  credit  and  in  conse- 
quence has  been  given  the  entire  charge  of  the  Kimball  Organ 
Company's  construction  department. 

This  is  an  assurance  to  all  buyers  of  Kimball  organs  that  they 
will  obtain  the  best  in  material  and  construction.  The  Orpheum 
theatre  seats'  2,500  and  plays  eight  acts  of  vaudeville  and  Para- 
mount features.  The  organ  will  be  featured  in  solos  and  used  in 
conjunction  with  an  orchestra  of  twelve  pieces  for  the  feature 
pictures. 

The  Kimball  company  has  recently  also  completed  an  organ  in 
Loew's  Globe  theatre.  Boston,  Mass.,  where  the  addition  of  this 
musical  equipment  has  met  with  great  success.  These  organs  have 
an  improved  automatic  player  equipment  which  is  the  last  word  in 
organ  perfection. 


MANY  THEATRES  EQUIPPED  WITH  NEWMAN'S 
FIXTURES 

THE  Cincinnati  plant  of  the  Newman  Manufacturing  Company, 
with  branch  plants  at  101  Fourth  avenue.  New  York,  N.  Y., 
and  108  West  Lake  street.  Chicago,  111.,  who  manufacture  brass 
lobby  display  frames,  easels  and  railings  for  theatres,  have  equip- 
ped the  following  theatres  during  the  past  week  with  their  pro- 
ducts :  Garden  theatre.  Muskegon,  Michigan ;  Strand  theatre, 
Chicago,  Illinois :  Star  theatre,  Cincinnati,  Ohio ;  Avenue  theatre, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio  ;  Terminal  theatre,  Chicago,  Illinois ;  Isis  theatre. 
Indianapolis.  Indiana:  Lyric  theatre,  Clinton,  Iowa;  Hippodrome 
theatre,  Springfield,  Ohio;  Lord  Calvert  theatre,  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land :  Colonial  theatre.  Cincinnati.  Ohio ;  Orpheum  theatre,  Lex- 
ington. Kentucky :  Parkway  theatre.  Baltimore,  Maryland ;  Ma- 
jestic theatre.  Bloomington,  Illinois;  Beach  theatre,  Chicago, 
Illinois ;  Sylvandell  theatre.  Aurora,  Illinois ;  Princess  theatre, 
Springfield.  Ohio,  and  New  Rex  theatre,  Bluefield,  West  'Virginia. 


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CALIFORNIA 

THE  old  Union  theatre  on  East  Fourteenth  street,  Oakland, 
has  been  remodeled,  renovated  and  enlarged  and  will  be 
opened  again  shortly. 
A  one-story  reinforced  concrete  theatre  building  is  to  be  erected 
by  M.  L.  Josey  on  Geary  street,  near  Powell,  San  Francisco,  at 
a  cost  of  about  $30,000. 

The  Broadway  theatre  at  Oakland  has  been  closed,  and  the  old 
building,  which  has  long  been  a  land  mark  in  that  city,  will  be 
torn  down. 

Robert  Francis  Shinn  has  taken  over  an  old  theatre  at  Mon- 
terey, and  this  will  be  opened  as  soon  as  it  can  be  remodeled  and 
redecorated. 

The  Bell  Amusement  Company  has  opened  a  new  theatre  at 
Vallejo  under  the  management  of  P.  H.  Hanlon. 

The  Pastime  theatre  at  Fresno  is  now  being  conducted  under 
the  same  management  as  the  Kinema  theatre. 

The  San  Bruno  theatre  has  been  opened  at  San  Bruno,  a  suburb 
of  San  Francisco,  by  H.  Ricci. 

The  Majestic  theatre  at  Tulare  is  being  remodeled  and  the 
seating  capacity  increased.  The  work  will  be  completed  before  the 
winter  rains  set  in. 

CANADA 

Mr.  "Ken"  Finlay,  manager  of  the  Princess  theatre,  Ottawa, 
Ontario,  is  in  Montreal  on  a  business  trip.  Mr.  Finlay  is  at 
present  superintending  the  construction  of  a  theatre  that  will 
eclipse  anything  now  in  the  Capital  City.  It  will  open  in  December. 
Mr.  Finlay  will  manage  the  new  theatre,  which  will  be  known  as 
the  "Regent."  Last  week,  through  Mr.  Herbert  Lubin,  the 
managing  director  of  the  Metro  Canadian  Company,  Mr.  Finlay 
signed  up  for  the  Metro  programe. 

St.  George's  theatre  on  Bank  street,  Ottawa,  Ontario,  which  is 
now  an  upstairs  nickel  show  under  the  management  of  ExAld. 
Harry  Low,  will  shortly  be  reconstructed  putting  it  on  a  par 
with  the  best  in  the  city. 

Ottawa  has  at  present  fourteen  motion  picture  theatres,  one 
with  a  seating  capacity  of  1,400  was  recently  opened  and  another 
which  will  seat  still  more  will  be  opened  shortly.  Ottawa's  pic- 
ture shows  alone  will  seat  over  12,000  people  at  one  time,  and  it  is 
only  nine  years  since  the  first  moving  picture  theatre  was  opened 
here  by  Mr.  "Ken"  Finlay. 

In  the  centre  of  the  shopping  district  is  Ottawa's  newest  and 
largest  photo'  play  house,  "The  Centre,"  which  opened  last  Thurs- 
day. The  theatre  has  1,400  seats  and  is  absolutely  fireproof.  One 
pleasing  feature  is  that  there  are  no  stairs  to  climb,  there  being  a 
gradual  incline  to  the  upper  floors. 

FLORIDA 

The  Strand  Amuesement  Company  of  Tampa  opened  a  new 
house  on  October  16. 

W.  H.  Warren,  of  Aurora,  111.,  has  assumed  the  management 
of  the  Plaza  Theatre  in  St.  Augustine. 

ILLINOIS 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eiler  Jones  opened  a  new  motion  picture  theatre 
at  Cambridge  on  November  1.  The  building  cost  $10,000.  The 
front  is  of  white  terra-cotta  with  a  tile  floor.  The  interior  is 
beautifully  decorated,  and  the  seats,  which  accommodate  400  per- 
sons, are  well  arranged  on  a  sloping  cement  floor. 

J.  O.  Adams,  proprietor  of  the  Lyric  motion  picture  theatre  at 
Centralia,  is  redecorating  his  house. 

Fred  Bagby  has  purchased  the  Princess  motion  picture  theatre 


from  Charles  Nunn  and  Ray  Kline,  at  Macomb.  He  plans  a 
number  of  improvements. 

Harry  Loper,  proprietor  of  the  Lyric  motion  picture  theatre  at 
Springfield,  has  secured  the  exclusive  rights  for  the  Fox  features 
in  that  city  and  is  showing  a  Fix  picture  three  days  of  every 
week. 

L.  L.  Butterfield  has  purchased  the  Gem  motion  picture  theatre 
at  Macomb,  from  J.  R.  Bennett.  Mr.  Bennett's  son,  Gale,  will 
manage  the  house. 

Frank  M.  Smith,  of  Rockford,  has  bought  from  Sarah  E.  Tierney 
the  motion  picture  theatre  property  on  Chicago  avenue,  opposite 
Washington  street,  in  Evanston,  with  53  by  156  feet  of  ground, 
for  an  indicated  consideration  of  $33,000,  subject  to  $18,000  in- 
cumbrance. 

INDIANA 

Feature  photoplays  only  are  being  shown  now  in  Ladoga; 
Hugh  Rapp,  proprietor  of  the  Family  theatre,  recently  changed  to 
features,  and  J.  E.  Mangus,  manager  of  the  Opera  House,  has 
been  running  features  for  some  time. 

Stoddard  and  Wallace  recently  opened  the  opera  house  at 
Rockville,  as  a  moving  picture  theatre.  Feature  photoplays  are 
being  shown  exclusively. 

Robert  Hortes,  proprietor  of  the  Star  Theatre,  at  Coal  Bluff, 
reopened  his  theatre  October  23.  Mr.  Hortes  was  compelled  to 
close  a  short  time  ago  on  account  of  the  large  number  of  cases 
of  diphtheria  in  Coal  Bluff. 

C.  F.  Halderman  has  bought  the  Lyric  theatre  at  Greencastle, 
from  L.  O.  Kelley.  The  theatre  has  been  redecorated  and  shows 
are  being  given  every  day  instead  of  Thursday  and  Saturday. 

Ben  Van  Borssum  has  purchased  the  Crescent  Theatre,  at  Terre 
Haute.  He  is  also  proprietor  of  the  Savoy  Theatre,  at  Terre 
Haute. 

A  moving  picture  machine  has  been  installed  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A 
at  Auburn.    Comedies  and  travel  pictures  will  be  shown. 

A  $250  moving  picture  machine  has  been  bought  by  the  Irving 
school  at  Hammond. 

Three  cash  prizes  are  being  given  away  to  every  first  night  house 
when  a  serial  is  shown  at  the  Empire  theatre  at  Milan.  The 
prizes  amount  to  $2.  There  also  are  a  number  of  consolation 
prizes,  consisting  of  tickets  of  admission. 

Hull  and  McNeelan  Hall,  at  Holton,  has  moving  picture  shows 
Wednesday  and  Saturday  nights. 

The  Star  theatre  at  Princeton  has  been  sold  to  Gene  W.  Barrett, 
of  Lawrenceville,  111.,  by  Charles  F.  Woods. 

A  new  front  is  being  put  in  at  the  Felter  theatre  at  South 
Whitley,  by  Wilson  Brothers. 

Mrs.  Julia  Remington  has  taken  charge  of  the  Victoria  theatre 
at  Lafayette.  Stanford  Remington,  her  son,  who  has  been  man- 
ager of  the  Victoria,  has  gone  to  Kankakee,  111.,  to  manage  the 
Gaiety  theatre. 

The  equipment  of  the  Lyric  theatre  at  Jasonville  is  being  moved 
to  Rosedale,  by  Frank  Straughn,  who  expects  to  open  a  moving 
picture  theatre  in  Rosedale  about  November  1. 

The  Theatorium,  at  Crawfordsville,  has  been  bought  by  Fred 
Mater,  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Gem,  from  A.  S.  Miller. 

MASSACHUSETTS 

Mayor  Cliff  of  Somerville  has  granted  permission  to  hold  moving 
picture  shows  in  the  First  Universalist  Church  on  Cross  street. 
The  church  is  the  oldest  of  the  denomination  in  Somerville,  and  is 
about  to  be  abandoned  for  church  purposes  for  a  building  to  be 
erected  on  Highland  avenue. 

George  B.  Miller  announced  that  he  had  obtained  a  lease  of  the 
Suffolk  theatre,  Holyoke,  for  the  period  of  November  15-29  and 


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hall. 

The  Park  theatre,  in  Park  street,  Attleboro,  is  to  be  reopened 
under  a  new  management.  Several  business  men  have  interested 
themselves  in  the  proposition,  and  have  secured  Thomas  C.  Hey- 
wood  to  manage  the  place. 

Dennis  D.  O'Leary  is  planning  to  open  the  new  Inman  Square 
theatre  in  Cambridge,  November  8.  This  theatre  seats  1,000  and  is 
equipped  with  all  the  modern  devices  of  the  film  house.  Mr. 
OTeary  has  engaged  \\'.  F.  Bossner,  until  recently  manager  of  the 
Park  in  Boston,  to  open  the  theatre  for  him. 

MICHIGAN 

Pontiac  is  to  have  a  new  theatre  at  South  Saginaw  and  Water 
streets,  to  cost  approximately  $100,000.  It  will  be  operated  by  A.  J. 
Kleist  &  Son.   The  lot  is  100  by  160  feet.   It  will  seat  1,800  people. 

A  photoplay  theatre  seating  800  is  being  erected  in  Manistee  by 
Gus  Kitsinger.  It  is  located  on  River  street.  It  will  be  leased  to 
the  Chicago  Amusement  Company,  who  already  operate  a  chain  of 
theatres  in  western  Michigan. 

Earl  Kirby,  of  the  Grosse  Point  Savings  Bank,  Grosse  Point, 
is  said  to  be  planning  on  the  construction  of  a  theatre  costing 
$50,000.  Grosse  Point  is  a  suburb  of  Detroit  and  is  the  home  of 
hundreds  of  Detroit's  wealthiest  people. 

The  Family  theatre  in  Ionia  has  been  sold  to  Frederick  Jacobi. 
He  has  made  many  improvements.  Mr.  Jacobi  for  the  past  ten 
years  has  been  an  exhibitor  in  the  state  of  Wisconsin. 

The  Princess  theatre,  Cadillac,  has  been  taken  over  by  Messrs. 
Boroin  and  Evans. 

The  Bijou  theatre,  Iron  Mountain,  will  be  enlarged  to  800  seats. 
While  the  changes  are  being  made,  its  attractions  will  be  moved 
over  to  the  Marion  theatre.  After  the  Bijou  is  completed,  the 
Marion  will  be  enlarged  and  improved. 

The  Wilson,  Crystal  Falls,  is  now  under  the  same  management 
as  the  Uno  theatre. 

Justin  Cavanaugh  has  purchased  the  Princess  theatre,  Yale, 
from  A.  V.  Parmlee. 

E.  J.  Stanton  has  purchased  a  lot  and  may  erect  a  large  new- 
house  in  Flint.    He  now  operates  three  motion  picture  theatres. 

The  Frank  Farrington  Building  Construction  company  of  Detroit 
have  commenced  building  the  Palace  theatre,  Saginaw,  to  be 
owned  and  operated  by  the  Hippodrome  Amusement  companj-. 

MISSOURI 

Fred  Warner  has  purchased  a  plot  on  the  north  side  of  St. 
Louis  avenue,  west  of  Grand  avenue,  St.  Louis,  and  will  erect  a 
$50,000  motion  picture  theatre  to  seat  2,000. 

The  Bushnell-Pommer  Realty  company  has  purchased  the 
Pageant  theatre  building  and  its  site,  on  the  north  side  of  Delmar 
avenue,  west  of  Laurel  avenue.  St.  Louis,  for  a  consideration  of 
$107,000.    The  theatre  has  a  seating  capacity  of  1.500  persons. 

The  $250,000  photoplay  house,  the  Cinderella,  Cherokee  street 
and  Iowa  avenue,  St.  Louis,  opened  the  first  part  of  October,  is 
doing  capacity  business. 

Frank  L.  Newman,  proprietor  of  the  Royal  theatre.  Kansas  City, 
has  leased  the  two  story  building  at  109-111  East  12th  street  for 
the  ere.ction  of  a  motion  picture  theatre. 

A  lease  of  the  Hippodrome.  Columbia,  has  been  obtained  from 
B.  E.  Hatton,  by  J.  Willard  Ridings  and  O.  S.  Fuqua.  w  ho  announce 
that  three  reels  of  pictures  and  two  vaudeville  acts  will  be  shown 
every  night. 

The  Manchester  theatre,  at  5378  Old  Manchester  road,  St.  Louis, 
has  opened  for  business  under  the  management  of  Fred  Hubert, 
who  is  an  experienced  showman,  formerly  connected  with  the  La 
Salle  theatre. 

The  American  theatre,  at  Seventh  and  Market  streets,  St.  Louis, 
is  in  the  hands  of  contractors  who  are  altering  and  repairing  the 
house  preparatory  to  its  opening  on  November  7  as  the  Triangle 
theatre  of  St.  Louis.  David  L.  Russell,  present  manager  of  the 
house,  will  continue  in  that  capacity  under  the  new  policy.  Mr. 
Russell  has  been  manager  of  the  Imperial  theatre.  Forest  Park 
Highlands  and  Delmar  Garden,  and  is  well  known  in  amusement 
circles. 

Mrs.  L.  B.  Stoddard,  manager  of  the  Monroe  theatre,  at  Chippewa 
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and  the  new  fireproof  floor  of  concrete  has  been  laid. 

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addition  to  the  theatre,  she  operates  a  commodious  airdome  during 
the  summer. 

John  W.  Cornelius,  proprietor  of  the  Lyric,  at  Sixth  and  Pine 
streets,  St.  Louis,  is  having  a  new  pavement  made  in  front  of  his 
theatre.   The  pavement  will  be  laid  in  squares  of  red-tinted  cement. 

A  new  theatre  called  the  ^laplewood  Lyric  opened  on  October  17, 
at  7320  Manchester  avenue.  St.  Louis,  with  a  mixed  bill  of  motion 
picture  features,  comedy  and  two  acts  of  vaudeville. 

The  New  Grand  Central,  Grand  and  Lucas  avenues,  St.  Louis, 
ran  a  second  engagement  of  "The  Sign  of  the  Rose,"  with  George 
Beban.  during  the  week  of  October  17. 

NEBRASKA 

Harry  Lawrie,  architect,  has  completed  the  plans  for  the  moving 
picture  theatre  that  will  be  erected  on  the  site  of  the  buildings  now 
occupied  by  the  "World-Herald,"  Omaha.  A  long-time  lease  has 
been  secured  on  the  grounds,  and  as  soon  as  the  buildings  now 
there  are  vacated,  which  will  be  about  March  1  of  next  year,  wreck- 
ing will  begin.  As  soon  as  they  are  removed  the  erection  of  a 
building  will  begin,  the  intention  to  have  it  completed  and  ready 
for  occupancy  August  1,  1916. 

The  new  Crescent  theatre,  Holdrege,  was  opened  recently  with 
motion  pictures. 

NEW  YORK 

Salvator  Sorrentno  is  liaving  a  large  building  erected  on  Grand 
avenue,  Rockville,  north  of  postoffice.  Upon  its  completion  a 
modern  moving  picture  show  house  will  be  opened  by  Charles 
Hodge. 

Work  upon  the  foundation  of  the  Brace  Motion  Picture  theatre, 
Hammondsport,  on  the  Reynolds'  property  on  Sheather  street,  was 
begun  recently. 

NEW  JERSEY 

Building  Superintendent  John  H.  Saul  has  before  him  four  appli- 
cations for  large  motion  picture  theatres  in  Jersey  City.  They  are 
to  be  located  on  Bergen  avenue,  Jackson  avenue.  Central  avenue 
and  Ocean  avenue.  The  entire  seating  capacity  of  the  four  proposed 
theatres  would  be  4,500.  The  building  superintendent  has  not  yet 
finally  acted  on  the  applications.  If  the  permits  are  granted,  work 
on  the  buildings  will  begin  at  once  and  the  four  new  theatres  would 
be  ready  for  use  early  next  spring. 

Abraham  W.  Deacon  started  a  new  moving  picture  show  in  the 
Odd  Fellows'  Temple,  ^Moorestown,  recenth*,  which  was  well 
patronized.  Exhibitions  will  be  given  every  Tuesday  and  Thursday 
nights. 

The  Chambers  street  theatre,  the  first  moving  picture  house  on 
the  hill  section  of  Phillipsburg,  N.  J.,  opened  September  25. 
The  building  is  of  brick,  90  by  37  feet,  and  has  a  seating  capacity 
of  500.    It  is  controlled  by  a  stock  company  of  local  citizens. 

The  new  Strand  theatre,  located  on  Coryell  street,  Lambert- 
ville,  N.  J.,  is  called  one  of  the  state's  best  appointed  houses  devoted 
to  the  screen  play.  It  is  situated  in  the  heart  of  Lambertville,  and 
is  being  exceptionally  well  patronized.  It  has  a  seating  capacity 
of  700,  a  gold  fibre  screen  measuring  14  x  18,  a  Seeberg  orchestral 
organ,  two  projecting  machines,  operated  by  electricity,  and  it  is 
absolutely  fireproof.  It  also  has  a  fine  ventilating  system.  The 
house  is  owned  and  managed  by  Messrs.  Hildinger  and  Papier, 
two  picture  promoters  of  Trenton. 

OHIO 

The  Strand  theatre  in  Cleveland  opened  to  the  public  on  Oc- 
tober 15.  Mr.  Adler,  one  of  the  owners,  stated  that  the  best  pic- 
tures that  can  be  secured  in  this  section  of  the  countrj'  are  used. 
The  theatre  is  owned  b}-  Freidberg  and  i\dler,  owners  of  the 
Alhambra  theatre  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

Henn  Brothers  have  taken  a  ten-year  lease  on  the  new  Home- 
stead theatre,  now  under  construction  at  Detroit  avenue  and 


W  est  118th  street,  Cleveland.  The  pla3house  will  be  read}"  for 
opening  about  November  1. 

Louis  Becht,  owner  of  the  Mall  theatre,  Cleveland,  has  taken  a 
lease  on  the  motion  picture  theatre  that  is  to  be  located  in  the  new 
Windemere  building,  in  East  Cleveland. 

The  controlling  interest  in  the  McMicken  avenue  Imperial  theatre, 
situated  opposite  Mohawk  place,  Cincinnati,  has  been  purchased 
by  Dr.  George  C.  Kolb. 

Lauren  B.  Solether  has  sold  Everybody's,  a  motion  picture  house 
in  Bowling  Green,  to  Clarence  Osborn.  Solether  will  devote  all 
his  attention  to  the  Empress  theatre  in  Toledo,  of  which  he  is 
part  owner. 

PENNSYLVANIA 

Announcement  was  made  October  21  that  the  William  Penn 
motion  picture  theatre,  Harrisburg,  at  Thirteenth  and  Thompson 
streets,  which  has  been  run  unsuccessfully  by  three  different 
exhibitors,  has  been  leased  by  an  automobile  dealer  to  be  used  as  a 
garage. 

The  Alhambra,  a  Stanley  company  house  at  Twelfth  and  Morris 
streets,  Philadelphia,  is  now  under  one  of  their  most  successful 
managers,  formerly  connected  with  several  well-known  New  York 
picture  theatres.  The  Alhambra  has  been  thoroughly  overhauled 
since  last  season.  The  walls  have  been  redecorated  and  a  new  and 
up-to-date  ventilating  plant  installed.  An  orchestra  of  six  pieces 
led  by  Frank  Kelly  supplements  the  Kimball  organ,  T.  R.  Smith, 
formerly  of  the  Ruby,  is  the  regular  organist. 

The  Bluebird,  on  North  Broad  street,  Philadelphia,  with  Elliott 
Goldman  as  manager,  is  celebrating  its  first  anniversary  by  having 
an  expert  .organist  give  daily  recitals. 

Robert  B.  Donnell,  organist  at  the  Somerset,  Twenty-si.xth  and 
Somerset  streets,  gives  special  accompaniments  on  the  new  Wur- 
litzer  orchestral  organ  to  all  the  big  features. 

The  Fairmount,  at  Fairmount  avenue  and  Franklin  street,  Phila- 
delphia. H.  M.  Kendrick,  manager,  has  a  piano  in  addition  to  its 
orchestra.  This  week  Frederick  Eberwein,  Jr.,  a  well-known  pian- 
ist, will  give  special  piano  programs  in  conjunction  with  the  or- 
chestra. 

Louis  Krause,  manager  of  the  Strand,  at  Twelfth  and  Girard 
avenues,  Philadelphia,  has  announced  his  engagement  to  Miss  Ida 
D.  W  hitman. 

Charles  W.  Treen,  motion  picture  operator  at  the  Locust,  Phila- 
delphia, is  the  proud  father  of  a  fine  boy. 

Altoona  is  to  have  another  large  picture  house.  W^illiam  Orr  is 
erecting  a  $15,000  building  in  Fourth  street.  The  foundation  is 
already  completed  and  work  has  been  started  on  the  superstruc- 
ture. It  will  be  an  up-to-date  house  of  600  capacity  and  will  be 
fireproof  throughout. 

S.  W.  Maywood  opened  his  new  theatre  in  Sheridan,  recently. 
It  is  known  as  the  Sheridan.  The  building  is  of  tapestry  brick,  of 
two  stories,  the  lobby  is  well  lighted  and  the  posters  are  mounted 
in  big  brass  frames.  The  screen  is  of  the  silver  type  and  the  projec- 
tion is  taken  care  of  by  two  Power's  6A  Cameragraphs. 

The  property  at  2844-46-48  Frankford  avenue.  Philadelphia, 
known  as  the  Empire  Palace  theatre  and  Airdome,  has  been  pur- 
chased from  Karp  &  London  by  New  York  interests. 

A  new  theatre,  dance  hall  and  roof  garden  will  be  built,  including 
three  store  -fronts  on  Frankford  avenue, 

WEST  VIRGINIA 

Over  $6,000  was  spent  on  the  remodeling  of  the  Camden  theatre 
at  Parkersburg,  and  a  new  mirroroide  screen,  19  x  23  feet,  purchased 
from  a  Pittsburgh  company,  was  installed. 

The  Camden  seats  1,300.  F.  C.  Smoot  is  manager.  The  Camden 
management  is  a  strong  believer  in  advertising,  maintaining  a 
publicity  department  in  charge  of  Mark  Flaherty. 

C.  L.  Ritter  and  Dr.  R.  E.  \^ickers  have  arranged  to  build  a 
motion  picture  theatre  at  Huntington.  It  will  cost  $27,000  and  is 
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Vol.  12.    No.  18. 


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III 


Music  and  the  Picture 


Edited  by  Ernst  Luz 

This  department  is  maintained  for  the  exhibitor's  assistance  with  a  view  of  suggesting  proper  musical  illustrations  for 
current  photo  plays.  MOTION  PICTURE  NEWS  will  be  pleased  to  help  solve  any  difficulties  the  exhibitors  may 
have  with  their  musical  programs.  All  communications  should  be  addressed  to  the  Music  and  the  Picture  Department. 


AUDIENCES   MUST   NOT    BE    FED    TOO  MUCH 
MELODRAMATIC  MUSIC 

THERE  seems  to  be  a  furore  at  present  for  what  are  termed 
long  hurries  or  agitatos  by  picture  players.  To  have  long 
numbers  of  this  character,  in  fact,  is  not  practical.  There 
is  a  sameness  in  all  such  numbers.  While  there  may  be  more  notes 
or  strains,  as  a  rule  they  all  sound  similar,  consequently  these  num- 
bers should  not  be  played  longer  than  positively  necessary.  Melo- 
dramatic numbers  are  meant  for  effect  playing  only  and  no  audience 
will  appreciate  them  as  good  music. 

Such  numbers  are  only  important  in  working  up  the  climaxes 
of  the  tense  dramatic  situations  in  the  picture  play.  Consequently, 
if  you  play  them  for  any  length  of  time  before  or  after  the  picture 
point  which  you  desire  to  accentuate,  you  in  reality  have  killed  the 
situation  by  making  your  music  tiresome,  failing  to  attract  the 
necessary  attention  at  the  picture  point  in  question. 

It  is  nothing  unusual  to  go  into  a  theatre  and  hear  a  hurry  or 
agitato  played  for  five  or  more  minutes.  This  is  ridiculous  and 
quite  unnecessary.  The  audience  must  always  be  entertained, 
not  jarred. 

When  there  is  lengthy  excitable  action  opening  with  a  fight  or 
tumult,  a  hurry  can  be  played  until  the  action  is  accentuated, 
after  which  a  properly  selected  gallop  will  hold  the  same  tempera- 
ment and  you  will  be  playing  a  number  with  a  theme  which  will 
not  jar  or  become  tiresome.  In  substituting  gallops  to  follow 
hurries  you  must  exercise  care,  so  as  not  to  use  gallops  which  are  in 
reality  fast  polka  movements. 

Polka  movements  called  gallops  will  never  sound  as  if  they  were 
played  fast,  no  matter  how  lively  you  play  them,  and  it  is  impossible 
to  give  a  musical  impression  of  excitement  or  tumult  with  them. 
Such  gallops  are  only  good  for  horse  races.  When  the  screen 
action  is  of  still  greater  duration,  an  overture  with  a  long  allegro 
vivace  can  be  used,  playing  the  allegro,  then  following  with  a 
hurried  gallop  until  the  end  of  the  action. 

Why  Hurries  Will  Not  Hold  Interest 

The  temperamental  effect  is  the  same  and  your  musical  program 
will  show  more  class,  while  it  will  not  become  tiresome  to  listen 
to.  Hurries  and  agitatos  are  written  in  minor  keys  with  the 
diminished  seventh  chord  prominent,  which  is  one  reason  why 
they  will  not  hold  interest  very  long,  the  musical  possibilities  being 
very  limited  under  such  conditions. 

This  does  not  mean  that  melodramatic  music  is  not  necessary  in 
picture  playing,  but  to  illustrate  its  importance  which  you  destroy 
by  overdoing  it.  Agitated  action  on  the  picture  screen  when 
lengthy  and  not  leading  to  an  important  picture  climax,  can  be 
more  entertainingly  illustrated  by  slow  high  tension  numbers,  in 
legato  movement  with  agitated  strains  accentuating  the  theme. 
Such  agitated  strains  are  often  designated  in  music  by  the  term 
meno  mosso,  meaning  more  movement.  In  such  numbers  the  agita- 
tion is  properly  illustrated  in  your  musical  interpretation  of  the 
number. 

Always  make  your  decrescendos  and  diminuendos  to  follow  the 
screen  action.  Picture  humor  is  an  essential  accomplishment  in 
picture  playing.  Don't  allow  the  idea  to  root  in  your  mind,  that 
you  can  play  a  five  reel  feature  having  melodramatic  inclinations, 
with  five  long  hurries  and  five  other  numbers,  and  hope  to  have 
the  audience  appreciate  your  efforts. 

Many  times  while  seated  with  the  theatre  audience  I  have  heard 


the  remark,  "I  wish  they  would  stop  that  and  play  something,"  when 
the  music  was  grinding  out  a  five-minute  hurry. 

Musician  at  Mercy  of  Audiences'  Tastes 

The  musician  should  never  forget,  regardless  of  what  his  per- 
sonal views  or  conveniences  may  dictate,  we  are  always  at  the 
mercy  of  the  audience.  No  exhibitor  or  manager  is  likely  to  con- 
tinue the  services  of  any  musician,  who  can  not  command  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  favorable  comment. 

My  personal  experiences  have  taught  me  to  respect  the  com- 
ments of  that  audience  which  does  not  make  a  study  of  music, 
yet  loves  it.  A  theoretical  knowledge  of  music  does  not  make  a 
good  critic,  for  the  brain  that  is  tired  of  figures  is  the  one  that 
will  find  music  a  perfect  diversion,  being  therefore  in  a  more  appre- 
ciative mood. 

Dont  forget  that  the  success  of  the  picture  theatre  is  entirely  due 
to  the  fact  that  the  public  finds  wholesome  diversion  and  change  of 
thought  in  picture  theatre  entertainment.  Sixty  per  cent,  of  your 
audience  is  tired  when  they  come  to  your  theatre.  Don't  let  them 
go  away  tired  and  you  surely  will  if  you  try  to  feed  them  a  super- 
abundance of  melodramatic  music. 


ONLY  BLIND  ORGANIST  IN  PICTURE  THEATRE 
IS  AT  THE  REGENT,  HARRISBURG,  PA. 

THE  only  blind  organist  in  a  motion  picture  theatre  in  the 
United  States  is  connected  with  the  Regent,  Harrisburg,  Pa., 
of  which  Peter  Magaro  is  manager,  making  his  first  appearance 
there  in  a  recital  on  October  6.  He  is  Professor  C.  Walter  Wal- 
lace, who  until  now  had  been  playing  with  great  success  in  the 
Lyric,  Reading,  Pa. 

Professor  Wallace  is  a  musician  of  rare  attainments.  A  re- 
markable thing  about  his  playing  in  motion  picture  theatres  is  the 
fact  that  despite  his  affliction  he  is  able  to  make  the  organ  music 
conform  with  the  acting  on  the  screen. 

This  he  accomplishes  with  the  aid  of  his  wife,  who  always  sits 
at  his  side  and  indicates  by  different  pressures  of  her  fingers  on 
his  arm  what  kind  of  music  is  appropriate  to  the  part  of  the  film 
play  being  presented  at  any  time.  Miss  Merchant,  who  has  been 
organist  at  the  Regent  for  several  months,  is  to  remain,  she  and 
Professor  Wallace  regularly  dividing  the  programs  between  them. 

Mr.  Magaro  has  just  had  a  four-manual  organ  installed  in  the 
Regent  in  place  of  the  two-manual  instrument,  recently  damaged 
by  water  from  a  flood  backing  up  in  the  theatre  cellar. 


'TIPPERARY"  IN 


SONG  WHICH  MAY  REPLACE 
POPULARITY 

THIS  department  has  received  copies  of  the  march  song,  "Keep 
the  Home-Fires  Burning,"  Chappell  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  which  will 
super.'^ede  the  popularity  of  "Tipperary."  It  has  a  positive  military 
suggestion  in  words  as  well  as  music.  "The  Perfect  Song,"  from 
that  most  successful  photo  play,  "The  Birth  of  a  Nation,"  is  also 
published  by  Chappell  &  Co.,  41  East  Thirty-fourth  street,  New 
York  City. 

This  number  is  the  serious  theme  throughout  the  musical  score 
of  "The  Birth  of  a  Nation."  It  is  an  excellent  number  for  organ, 
piano  or  orchestra.    It  makes  an  excellent  romantic  number. 

Chappell  &  Co.  is  known  as  the  publisher  of  the  successful  "Song 
of  Songs." 


Table  of  contents  will  hereafter  be  found  every  week  opposite  inside  back  cover. 


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Set  No.  2  consists  of  a  long  Heavy  Dramatic  Descriptive  and  Hurry.  Good  for  scenes  of 
heavy  plotting  or  mysterious  action  leading  to  tlgbts  or  tumult. 

Set  No.  3  consists  of  an  Aeitato-Hurry  and  I>anientation.  Good  for  tlehts,  riots,  etc.. 
ending  in  despair  or  death. 

Set  No.  4  consists  of  a  Light  .\gilato  and  Andaut*  movement.  Good  for  quarrels  or 
agitation  in  society  dramas. 

Set  No.  5  i3  a  Burglar  scene  opening  with  the  sneaky  music,  then  agitato,  hurry  and 
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Set  No.  C  consists  of  a  misterioso  and  Allegro  Hmry.  Used  for  plotting  ending  in  great 
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Set  No.  7  is  an  Indian  scene  of  three  numbers.  An  Indian  mystical  opening  a  light  or 
battle  hurry,  closing  with  an  Indian  plaintive. 

Set  No.  8  is  a  light  and  chase  scene.  Opens  with  a  Hurrj-,  going  directly  into  a  con- 
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Set  No.  9  is  a  thr.>e,  numbered  Storm  scene.    A.  1  is  a  Storm  Hurry.    B.2  is  an  Allegro 
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MUSIC  SHOULD  CHANGE  WITH  PICTURE 
THOUGHT  ONLY 

N.  v.,  Mobile,  Ala.— You  are  evidently  laboring  under  the  old 
impression  that  music  must  change  with  every  scene.  The  music 
should  change  with  the  picture  thought  or  temperament  only.  You 
lack  a  study  of  picture  music  repertoire. 

After  such  a  study  you  will  find  many  numbers  that  have  a 
pathetic  or  romantic  appeal,  giving  a  dramatic  effect,  suitable  for 
illustrating  agitation.  You  can  avoid  playing  too  much  melodram- 
atic music,  which  naturally  will  interrupt  your  better  numbers,  by 
being  familiar  with  numbers  of  slow  and  agitated  movement.  Yoii 
will  know  such  numbers  after  a  sympathetic  study  and  playing 
them,  endeavoring  to  have  them  express  some  meaning  to  you. 

Interpretation  in  music  is  everything.  Try  "Apple  Blossoms," 
published  by  Leo  Feist;  "Simple  Aveu,"  by  Thome,  or  "Chanson 
sans  Paroles,''  by  Tschaikowski,  and  you  will  get  an  idea  of  how 
you  can  musically  illustrate  high  tension  agitation  on  the  screen 
with  good  music.  Don't  play  these  numbers  the  way  the  other 
fellow  plays  them,  or  says  they  should  be  played,  but  play  so  as  to 
create  some  appeal  with  them. 

You  must  not  confine  yourself  entirely  to  the  notes,  but  on  the 
contrary  endeavor  to  create  style  and  color  in  your  playing.  The 
short  dramatic  numbers  should  only  be  used  when  certain  impor- 
tant climaxes  are  to  be  accentuated.  The  most  important  in  picture 
playing  is  the  being  familiar  with  the  music  you  intend  playing. 

This  will  make  picture  synchronization  with  music  simple.  This 
is  the  one  and  only  reason  why  original  scores  or  positive  sugges- 
tions have  never  been  a  success.  It  also  places  a  responsibility  upon 
the  musician,  which  only  one  out  of  every  hundred  can  master 
satisfactorily. 

Unless  you  have  a  proper  plot  or  see  your  picture  in  advance,  I 
cannot  see  how  you  can  get  reasonably  good  results  at  all.  Musical 
information  will  come  to  the  picture  musician  in  the  near  future. 
The  question  at  present  is.  What  will  be  more  beneficial  for  the 
manv? 


SCHUMANN-HEINK  COLLEAGUES  FURNISH  MUSIC 

FOR  QUIMBY  IN  FT.  WAYNE,  IND. 

\Y/  C.  QUIMBY,  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.,  one  of  the  most  successful 
VV  .  exhibitors  in  the  country,  has  surrounded  his  Paramount 
pictures  with  the  best  available  music  possible  to  secure. 

His  orchestra  consists  of  Gaston  Bailhe.  former  soloist  of  the 
Pittsburgh  Symphony  Orchestra ;  Emmerean  Stoerber,  the  cele- 
brated German  celloist,  recently  with  the  Thomas  Symphony  Or- 
chestra. Chicago;  Prof.  George  Baihle.  pianist  of  the  European 
School  of  Music ;  Helen  Kinkade.  organist,  who  began  the  study 
of  music  at  the  age  of  eight  years ;  and  Clarence  Edwards,  organist, 
who  studied  abroad  for  four  years. 

On  October  14  these  artists  gave  a  joint  concert,  at  two-dollar 
prices,  at  the  Jefferson  theatre,  in  Ft.  Wayne,  with  the  famous 
singer.  Madam  Schumann-Heink,  which  speaks  for  their  ability. 


OTTAWA  OPERATORS  IN  A  PICTURE  FOR  PUBLIC 
TO  SEE  IN  THEIR  OWN  CITY 

THE  members  of  the  Operators'  Union,  Ottawa.  Can.,  had  a 
film  taken  last  week  outside  the  Dominion  Vaudeville  theatre. 
This  picture  shows  the  whole  mcmber.^hip  of  the  union  and  will 
be  shortly  shown  in  the  local  picture  houses,  with  a  view  to  allow- 
ing the  public  to  see  the  manipulators  of  machines  which  show- 
pictures  for  their  enlightenment  and  amusement. 

The  Operators'  Union  has  commenced  an  instruction  class  for 
the  benefit  of  assistants.  The  first  of  these  classes  was  held  a  week 
ago.  Attendance  is  compulsory  and  this  ensures  a  successful  out- 
come. However,  judging  from  the  number  present  at  the  first 
class,  a  week  ago,  little  urging  will  be  necessary. 


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Music  Plot  for  Metro  Feature,  "My  Madonna" 

Olga  Petrova  in  "My  Madonna"    Five  Reels.    Projection  Time  One  hour,  10  minutes 


HIS  plot  is  adapted  so  as  to  make  it  possible  for  the  pianist,  one  man  orchestra  player,  Organist  or  orchestra  leader  to  make 
some  prior  preparation  for  playing  the  picture.    The  numbers  suggested  do  not  need  to  be  used ;  similar  numbers  or 
numbers  suggested  by  the  Notes  will  do  as  well.    It  is  intended  that  no  unnecessary  expense  be  added  for  exhibitor  or  musician. 


T 


PART  1. 


Description  of  Music. 


Xiniibcrs  Siiggcsfcd. 


Cue  to  Stop  Xniiibcr. 


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Desc.  (Classy  Rom.)  "Tendre   Aveu"    (W.   Jacobs)  "Lucile,  the  Queen  of  Pleasure,"  etc. 

Inter.-Trot   "Merry  Whirl"  (Berlin  and  Snyder)  "Starving,"  etc. 

Desc.    (Hy.-Rom.)   "Romance  of  a  Rose"  (M.  Witmark)  "Anticipating  Her  Promised  Visit,"  etc. 

Waltz    (Classy    Leg.)  "Amoreuse"    (Ricordi)   Concert. 

Desc.    (S. -Hy.-Rom.)   "Humoresque,"   by   Dvorak  Connects  1  and  2. 

PART  2. 

"The  Day  of  the  Art  Contest  Arrives." 

Inter.    (Light  Desc.)  "Fluttering  Fancies"   fCundy  Co.)  "Robert's  Old  Works  Become  Valuable,"  etc. 

Desc.    (Hy.-Rom.)   "Wings  of  Love"  (M.  Witmark)  'Later,  Their  New  Home,"  etc. 

Waltz   "Flame  of  Love"  (Jos.  W.  Stern)  Letter  dropped  by  Robert. 

Desc.   (Hy.-Rom.)    (5  min.)  "Cinema"   (Ricordi  and  Company)  Concert. 

Waltz   Lento    (Hy.-Leg.)  "Old  Cremone"  (Chappell  and  Company)  Connects  2  and  3. 

PART  3. 

"Robert  and  Lucille  Give  a  Lawn  Party,"  etc. 
Inter.-Trot.    (French)   "Soup  to  Nuts"   (Ricordi  and  Company)  After  Marionette  show. 

Desc.    (Hy.-Rom.)   "Smiles  and  Caresses"   (Leo  Feist)  Picture  connoisseur  meets  Lucille  after  quarrel. 

Inter-Trot.   (French)   "La  Brulante"   (Ricordi  and  Company)  Lucille  falls  on  dance  floor. 

Desc.    (Hy.-Rom.)    Tosti's   "Good-Bye"   Concert. 

Long  Rom.   Intro,  and  Waltz  "Spirit  of  Love"   (Remick)  Connects  3  and  4. 

PART  4. 

"Lucille  Is  Now  Playing  Angel  of  Charity." 

Agitato    (Light)    A.  B.  C.  Dr.  Set  No.  4 — A.  1  After  short  struggle. 

Desc.    (Rom.)   "Dream  Chimes"  (Schuberth  and  Company)  "Lucille  Takes  Little  Bertha." 

Inter.   (Light)   "Roma"    (Chas.   Harris)  Countess  leaves  automobile. 

Agitato    (Light)   A.  B.  Dr.  Set  No.  4 — A.  1  Countess  enters  where  connoisseur  killed. 

Desc.       (Hy.-Path.)   "Rose  Blushes"   (M.  Witmark)  Concert. 

Waltz   Lento   (Hy.-Leg.)  "Minor  and  Major"  (Ricordi  and  Company)  Connects  4  and  5. 

PART  5. 

"The  Trial." 

Desc.    (Hy.-Ag.-Path.)   "Sunshine  and  Shadows"   (C.  Fischer)  "Released  by  the  Father's  Confession,"  etc. 

Waltz  Lento   (Hy.-Leg.)  "Ma  Cherie"  (Franklin  Music  Company)  "I  Will  Tell  You  Where  She  Is,"  etc. 

"Ave  Maria,"  by  Gounod  To  End. 


Notes. — This  is  a  wonderful  picture  in  its  portrayal  of  love  and  passion 
and  requires  that  your  music  at  all  times  must  have  a  romantic  appeal. 

Your  numbers  must  be  played  quietly,  yet  expressively,  throughout. 
Nos.  1  and  17  should  be  sweet,  slow  numbers  in  major  keys.  Nos.  2, 
11  and  13  should  be  intermezzo-trots  having  a  French  musical  accent. 
Nos.  3.  7.  9,  12.  20  and  22  are  all  slow  numbers,  having  a  dramatic  as 
well  as  a  romantic  appeal.  These  numbers  should  have  an  agitated  strain 
in  minor  key.    Must  be  slow  and  played  legato. 

Nos.  14  and  24  are  similar  numbers;  the  numbers  suggested  should 


be  used  if  possible.  No.  5  is  also  a  similar  number,  not  quite  as  serious 
and  the  minor  strain  is  therefore  unnecessary.  Nos.  4,  10,  21  and  23 
must  be  slow  legato  lento  waltzes  wherein  the  minor  keys  predominate. 
Should  be  classy  waltzes.  No.  8,  any  concert  waltz.  No.  15  must  be 
a  concert  waltz,  with  a  long  romantic  introduction. 

Nos.  6  and  18  should  be  light  2/4  intermezzos.  Must  not  have  the 
Western  suggestion.  Nos.  16  and  19  are  melodramatic  numbers,  as  are 
published  by  the  Photo  Play  Music  Company,  1520  Broadway,  New  York 
City.  These  numbers  suggest  screen  agitation  and  must  not  be  heavy 
or  played  fast. 


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the  value  of  the  Kimball  Organs,  but  of  the  necessity  of  organ 
music  as  a  part  of  the  progreon  in  picture  theatres. 

Thousands  of  persons  have  been  induced  to  pay  their  initial 
visit  to  a  "movie"  because  of  the  attraction  of  beautiful  music. 

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theatre  that  hasn't  a  Kimball  Orgajx  as  a  part  of  his  program  is 
overlooking  a  valuable  asset. 

Perhaps  among  our  hundreds  of  customers  there  are  many 
who  will  tell  you  honestly  what  they  think  of  organ  music  and  of 
the  Kimbedl  Orgams. 

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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 

The  Reviewer,  the  Producer,  and  the  Exhibitor   41 

Editorials    42 

Kansas  Presents  Solid  Front  Against  Censorship   43 

Roth^pfel  Meets  Capital  City  Film  Men  on  His  Tour   45 

The  Press,  the  Press  Representative  and  the  Picture — IV..  47 

Judges  Condemn  Censorship  at  Ohio  Convention   49 

Vim  Comedies  from  Melies  for  General  Release   75 

Paramount  and  K.  and  E.  in  $2,000,000  Company   44 

Mutual  Companies  Increase  Production  Activity   44 

Camerman  Thompson  Off  to  War  for  Paramount   46 

Kalem  Hornung  '"Stingaree"  Ready  November  24   48 

Work  on  "Bella  Donna,"  Checked  by  Fire,  Resumed   48 

Nance  O'Neil  Signs  with  Lubin  for  Feature  Series   49 

Mary  Pickford  in  "Madame  Butterfly"  for  Famous   50 

"Crimson  Wing,"  Essanay  Special,  Now  Ready   51 

North  American  Offers  $10,000  for  New  "Diamond"   51 

Mrs.  Wilson  Woodrow  Will  Write  Next  Pathe  Series   52 

New  Studio  Used  by  Brabin  for  "Raven"   52 

Pallas  Signs  Taylor,  Veteran  Actor,  as  Director   52 

Friendly  Host  Left  in  Wake  of  Paramount  Girl   53 

Board  of  Trade  Will  Fight  New  York  Constitution   72 

Triangle  to  Pierce  Boston  Field  at  2  Points   72 

World  Series  Films  Better  Than  Last  Year   74 

Ask  Clean  Health  Bill  for  Banned  "Damaged  Goods"   74 

France  with  Vogue  for  Comedies  on  Mutual   74 

Estabrook's  Way  to  Success  Indicated  by  Arrow  Film....  76 

Fine  Arts  Studio  a  Marriage  Atelier  for  Dorothy  Gish   76 

Lasky  Scholarship  for  College  Scenario  Course   76 

Realism  for  a  Lubin  from  Actual  Battle  Photos   77 

Public   Demands  More   Helen  Series  from  Universal   78 

New  Talent  Floats  on  Prosperity  Tide  to  Horsley   78 

West  Coast  Players  Club  Starts  with  50  Members   80 

Broadway  Star  and  Screen  Favorite  in  "Comrade  John"...  81 

Selig  to  Release  4-Act  Red  Seal  Adopted  from  Popular  Song  81 

All  U.  S.  Locales  Reproduced  at  Rolfe-Metro  Studios   82 

"Jeanne  Dore"  Will  Immortalize  Great  French  Actress.  ...  82 

Essanay  Begins  Action  Against  Alleged  "Dupers"   83 

DEPARTMENTS 

Live  Wire   Exhibitors    54 

Among  the  Exchanges    58 

Film  News  from  Foreign  Parts   61 

Looking  Ahead  with  the  Producers   62 

New  Laws  and  Court  Decisions   66 

In  and  Out  of  West  Coast  Studios   68 

Just   to    Make    Talk   73 

REVIEWS 

Blood  of  Our  Brothers,  The  (Mutual)   85 

Bought   (World   Film)   89 

Better  Woman,  The  (Equitable)   91 

Comrade  John   (Pathe)    85 

Crimson  Wing,  The  (Essanay)    86 

Destroyer,  The  (Essanay)    90 

Family  Stain,  The  (Fox  Film)    85 

Fourth   Knickerbocker  Triangle   Program   86 

Long  Chance,  The  (Universal)    94 

Man  of  God,  The  (Lubin)    87 

Manna   (Universal)    87 

Menace  of  the  Mute,  The  (Pathe)   88 

Secret    Sin,    The    (Lasky)   88 

Strange    Unknown,   The    (Lubin)    87 

Seventh  Noon,  The  (Mutual)    90 

Their  Sinful  Influence  (Selig)    89 

Upstart.  The  (Universal)    90 

Wasp,   The    (American)    92 

When  Appearances  Deceive   (Kalem)   86 

Yankee   Girl,   The    (Morosco)   88 

General  Film  Program    96 

Mutual   Program    96 

Pathe   Program    97 

Universal  Program    97 

RELEASE  CHARTS 

Calendar  of  Current  and  Coming  Releases  110,  112 

Release  Dates  for  Ready  Reference  114,  116 

Feature  Releases  Current  and  Coming   118 

ACCESSORY  NEWS  SECTION 

Motion  Picture  Projection  Simplified..*   145 

Projection    148 

Building   and    Furnishing    152 

Directory  of  New  Theatres   155 

Music  and  the  Picture    159 


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SPEER  CARBON  (  OMPANY,  St.  Mary's  Pa. 
G.  P.  Fryling,  Treasurer. 

Dear  Sir:  I  have  been  putting  your  carbons  to  the  most 
severe  tests  possible.  The  results  obtained  have  been  very 
gratifying.  The  illuminating  qualities  of  the  "SPEER"  car- 
bons are  the  equal,  if  not  the  superior,  of  any  other  make.  I 
have  tried  your  carbons  alongside  of  the  "BIO,"  admitted  as 
the  best  of  foreign  makes.  I  have  been  an  enthusiastic  boomer 
for  "BIO'S"  ever  since  their  introduction  in  this  country;  in 
fact,  I  was  one  of  the  first  users  of  the  "BIO,"  and  now  am 
just  as  enthusiastic  over  the  "SPEER." 

The  conditions  under  which  I  made  the  comparative  tests 
are  as  follows: 

Two  Power's  Six  A  machines,  each  burning  from  6,S  to  70 
amperes  of  direct  current  on  a  voltage  of  110.  In  one  machine 
used  "Bio's"  and  "SPEER"  in  the  other,  then  reversed  the 
tests  to  make  allowance  for  any  difference  there  may  have 
been  in  amperage.  The  result  being  that  your  carbon  was 
just  as  brilliant,  gave  just  as  white  a  light,  and  on  same  pic- 
tures ihe  light  seemed  more  penetrating  than  with  the  "Bio's." 
In  explanation,  may  say  that  I  mean  by  "penetrating"  that 


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every  way.  g 

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ing  to  offer:  g 

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in  your  carbons  which  I  feel  sure  you  can  remedy.    The  bindet  = 

of  your  carbon  does  not  seem  to  be  dense  or  fine  enough.    If  g 

you   will   examine   them   you   can    find   a   number  of   minute  = 

cracks  running  lengthwise.    The  arc  or  rather  part  of  the  arc  = 

has  a  tendency  to  break  out  through  these  cracks,  causing  a  M 

dimming  of  the  liglit  on  the  picture.    The  core  or  light  giving  g 

part  of  the  carbons  burns  perfect.    Otherwise  you  have  a  real  = 

carbon.    I  am  using  the  "Speer"  entirely  now  and  but  for  the  = 

one  defect  am  perfectly  satisfied.  j 

If  I  can  assist  you  in  any  other  way  of  making  further  test,  = 

am  at  your  command.  g 

Respectfully  yours,  M 

(Signed)  GARFIELD  DENNIS,  Chief  Operator.  I 


GRIFFITH'S  BIRTH  OF  A  NATION  USES  SPEER  CARBONS!!! 


NET  CASH  PRICES 

Hxl2,  cored,  pointed  both  ends,  $37.50  per  M.  (1,000  in  a  case) 

i\-x.n,  bored,  pointed  both  ends,  $40.00  per  M.  (1,000  in  a  case) 

J^xlZ,  cored,  pointed  both  ends,  $50.00  per  M.  (1,008  In  a  case) 

%x\l,  cored,  pointed  both  ends,  $70.00  per  M.  (1,000  in  a  case) 

Vsxn,  cored,  pointed  one  end,  $115.00  per  M.  (500  in  a  case) 

1x12,  cored,  pointed  one  end,  $150.00  per  M.  (500  in  a  case) 

We  Fill  Sample  Orders  for  100  Carbons  at  the 
Above  Pro  Rata  Prices 


TRADE  MARK 


Our  Speer  Carbons  are  absolutely  guaranteed  to  give  SATISFACTION  OR  MONEY  BACK 

SPEER  CARBON  COMPANY  Dep.  n  Saint  Mary's,  Pa. 


J. 


(Makers  of  Carbon  for  Electrical  Purposes  During  the  Past  25  Years) 

H.  HALLBERG,  36  East  23rd  Street,  New  York  City,  Eastern  Distributor  " 

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A  magazine  in  film  and  a  newspaper  besides. 

Edited  by  well  known  editors  in  the  publishing  world 
all  of  whom  are  conspicuous  for  their  distinctive  work. 

Household  Department 

is  something  never  before  attempted  in  motion  pictures.  The 
staff  of  two  leading  women's  magazines  will  cooperate  to 
make  this  department  an  indispensable  service  to  women 
theatre  patrons.  Every  week  will  bring  new,  unique  but 
useful  material. 

Fashions 

will  be  furnished  under  the  careful  supervision  of  a  promi- 
nent house  that  stands  supreme  as  a  style  authority.  There 
will  be  weekly  selections  of  the  latest  modes  from  the  fashion 
marts  at  home  and  abroad.  You  know  what  this  will  mean 
to  women  evervwhere. 


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Foreign  and  Domestic 

news  will  be  culled  from  the  latest  and  best  of  the  inter- 
national news — received  by  us  as  quickly  as  by  the  big  city 
dailies — edited  by  the  ablest  newspaper  editors. 

Besides,  there  will  be  the  occasional  great  sporting 
events  of  interest  to  the  sport  lovers  of  the  nation — in  New 
York  or  San  Francisco,  or  Galveston  or  Chicago — all  in  the 
Newspictures  Weekly. 

Every  Paramount  exhibitor  should  lose  no  time  in 
arranging  to  show  this  Weekly.  The  majority  have  already 
done  so.  The  release  date 


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Another 
Wonderful  Record 

"The  instantaneous  success  of  George  Beban  in  'An  Alien' 
at  the  Miles  Theatre,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  warranted  the  man- 
agement in  extending  the  booking  an  additional  week." 

An  Intensely  Interesting  and  Stirring  Photo  Drama 

Produced  by  Thomas  H.  Ince 

Splendidly  enacted  by  one  of  the  greatest  character  actors 
of  today. 

GEORGE  BEBAN 

in 

"An  Alien" 

A  superior  holiday  attraction 

Thousands  of  pleased  patrons — Big  Box  Office  receipts — 
Numerous  Rebookings. 

Don't  fail  to  secure  this  wonderful  picture  for  your  holiday 
patronage. 

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The  Triangle  Army 
is  Growing  Swiftly 


Every  day  finds  well  known  exhibitors  lining  up  in 
the  Triangle  phalanx.  They  are  coming  in  for  just  one 
reason — we'll  leave  you  to  guess  what  it  is. 

As  an  example,  take  Baxter  of  Denver.  What  would 
make  Baxter  contract  to  pay  $50,000  a  year  for  Triangle 
service  in  his  new  Isis  Theatre  but  a  fairly  definite  con- 
viction that  he  was  going  to  get  it — and  much  more 
back?  If  you  know  Baxter  you  know  he's  no  trailer. 
He  gets  in  early  on  a  good  thing. 

And  Evins  of  Atlanta.  If  he  bought  carelessly  his 
Vandette  Theatre  would  soon  be  in  the  financial  discard. 
But  he's  in  the  Triangle  line-up  to  the  tune  of  about 
$40,000  a  year.  He's  made  money  in  Atlanta,  now  he's 
insuring  himself  to  make  more. 

Gross  of  the  Columbia  Theatre  in  Dayton  sat  down 
with  a  pencil  and  figured  that  if  he  spent  $40,000  in  one 
year  for  pictures  they  would  have  to  be  mighty  good 
pictures — in  fact  much  better  than  anything  he  had 
ever  seen.  So  he  looked  at  them  at  the  Knickerbocker 
in  New  York  and — signed  a  Triangle  contract. 

There  are  Baxters — Evins',  Gross'  in  many  other 
cities.  All  of  them  looking  for  better  profits.  Perhaps 
you  are  one. 


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WILLIAM 

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MOST  EMINENT 
DRAMATIC  STAR 


IN     THE  STARTLING 


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2  Reel  Drama  Empire   His  Word 

1  Reel  Comedy  Atla   Battle  of  Not  Yet 


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My  Madonna 
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The  Final  Judgment 
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Barbara  Frietchie 


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Francis  X.  Bushman 
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Mary  Miles  Minter 
Edmund  Breese 
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Mary  Miles  Minter 
Albert  Chevalier 
Gail  Kane 
Ann  Murdock 
Dorothy  Donnelly 


Francis  X.  Bushman 
Emily  Stevens 
Hamilton  Revelle 
Marguerite  Snow 
Henry  Kolker 
Emmy  Wehlen 
Orrin  Johnson 
Beverly  Bayne 
Lois  Meredith 
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Julius  Steger 


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In  Twelve  Two-Act  Episodes 

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Utterly  unscrupulous  and  seeking  to  obtain  her  vast  wealth  to  further  the  ends 
of  his  Infamous  Oriental  cult,  Durbar,  the  Mystic,  attempts  to  force  Marguer- 
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"NO  TICKEE  — NO  WASHEE" 

Comedy  MONDAY,  NOV.  8 

Mike  has  but  one  collar,  and  that's  soiled,  with 
which  to  attend  the  Bricklayers'  outing.  He  sends 
it  to  the  Chinaman's  to  be  done  up,  and,  when 
Mike's  son  loses  the  half-ticket,  and  he  tries  to  re- 
cover the  collar  without  it,  Mike  gets  done  up,  but 
with  the  aid  of  the  police  he  wins  out.  Presenting 
■WILLIAM  SHEA  and  KATE  PRICE. 

CALIFORNIA  SCRAP  BOOK 

Educational  MONDAY,  NOV.  8 

"FOR  THE  HONOR  OF  THE  CREW" 

Three-Part  Drama.  Broadway  Star  Feature 
TUESDAY,  NOV.  9 

A  broken  oar  nearly  loses  the  race  for  a  Varsity 
Crew  and  investigation  discloses  the  fact  that  it  had 
been  cut.  The  culprit  is  found,  but  the  "Honor  of 
the  Crew"  saves  him.  JAMES  MORRISON  and 
EDWARD  ELKAS. 

"HATS  IS  HATS" 

Comedy  WEDNESDAY,  NOV.  10 

Mike,  the  expressman,  has  an  interesting  problem 
to  solve.  If  a  valuable  hat,  delivered  to  him,  is 
eaten  by  a  calf,  shall  he  deliver  the  calf  with  the 
hat  inside,  or  charge  it  up  to  profit  and  loss? 
HUGHIE  MACK,  EDWINA  ROBBINS  and  DON- 
ALD MacBRIDE. 


"SIS" 

Comedy . 


.THURSDAY,  NOV.  11 


A  charming  little  comedy-drama  concerning  the  fall- 
ing out  of  Sis  and  her  country  beau,  then  the  down- 
fall of  the  city  chap  and  consequent  winning  out  of 
honest  Bill.    An  all-star  cast. 

"ROMANTIC  REGGIE" 

Comedy  FRIDAY,  NOV.  12 

Reggie's  love  of  the  ultra- romantic  runs  away  with 
his  good  sense.  After  an  amusing  adventure  with  a 
"veiled  lady,"  evervone  has  a  huge  laugh  at  his 
expense.    Featuring  MR.  and  MRS.  SIDNE'^  DREW. 

"THE  WOMAN'S  SHARE" 

Two-Part  Drama.  .  SATURDAY,  NOV.  13 

A  wandering  prospector  found  in  Death  Valley  in 
the  nick  of  time,  proves  to  be  Silas  Hummel,  who 
had  left  a  good  wife  and  a  prosperous  farm  to  sat- 
isfy his  lust  for  gold.  GEORGE  HOLT,  ANNE 
SCHAEFER  and  GEORGE  KUNKEL. 


Six  a  Week,  Including  a  Three-Part 
Broadway  Star  Feature 

"SONNY    JIM    AND    THE    GREAT  AMERICAN 
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"THE  GYPSY  TRAIL,"  (from  Gone  to  the  Dogs)— 
Two-Part  Drama  TUESDAY,  NOV.  16 

"COUNT  'EM"— Comedy..  . WEDNESDAY,  NOV.  17 

"A  MOTORCYCLE  ELOPEMENT"— Comedy 

THURSDAY,  NOV.  18 

"DIPLOMATIC  HENRY"— Comedv 

FRIDAY,  NOV.  19 

"HEREDITY"— Three-Part  Drama.     Broadway  Star 
Feature  SATURDAY,   NOV.  20 


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■Criterion  Program 

Ushering  In  A  Pro^re^m-Plus 


Boston,  WasKington,  Dallas,  Indianapolis, 
St.  Louis,  Baltimore,  \^ere  some  of  the 
territories  represented  hy  \)isitors  to 
Kfew  York. 

A  dozen  exchange  men — old,  experi- 
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game,  sat  in  the  darkened  projection  room 

in  New  Tork  to  pass  judgment  on 
tke  promises  we  made  that  tke  New 
Kriterion  Program  would  be  wortky 
of  tkeir  best  efforts,  tkat  it  kad  every- 
tking  to  insure  its  success — stars, 
stor>),  direction,  NOVELTY. 

And  tke  universal  verdict  was  — 

"IMMENSE— BEST  THING 
WE  HAVE  SEEN  YET." 

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backing  tkeir  judgment  witk  cold 
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Paul  Gilmore 

Has  just  finished  doing  the  Big  Feature  of 
R  osemary  as  C  o-S  tar  with  M  arguerite  S  now 

for  the 

uahty  tr  ictures  \^  orp.  tv  one  of  the 

Mr.  Manufacturer 

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^Ve  only  contract  him  for  one  Feature  at  a  time. 
Latest  "Stills"  of  Paul  Gilmore  in  Pictures 


as  he  appears  in  Rosemary 
Director,  Wm.  Bowman 


as  Himself 
Photograph  by  Carpenter,  Los  Angeles 


in  D.  W.  Griffith's  Penitentes 
Director,  Jack  Conway 


T  here  may  be  other  stars  better  known  in  certain  S  ections 
but  none  more   \Jf  T\  IVClTSally    and  with  a  greater 

General  Following  than  Paul  Gilmore. 

Mr.  Exchange  Man 

W  e  have  a  full  line  of  colored  lithographs  of  m  ^«  G  ilmore.  A  il  styles 
and  sizes.  Y  ou  can  order  as  many  or  as  few  as  you  like.  A  ddress 
p  aul  G  ilmore  c  o.,  i  nc,     r  oom  214,      1547  b  roadway,     N  ew  y  o^^k 


m 


iiiiiiniiiiii 


Uanj  a  packed  house  is  directly  traceable  to  an  advertisement  in  the  "News." 


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LAUGH! 

AND 

"A  BUNCH 

has  unlocked  the  door  of  the  House  of  Mirth 

Laughter,  who  dance  and  ga 

Charles  Hoyts  Greatest  Comedy 

JOHN  SLAVIN,  WILLIAM 

make  all  spectators  hold 

of  riotous 


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FOR  THE  JOYOUS 
JESTER'S  HERE 


WITH 


OF  KEYS 


99 


and  loosed  upon  the  World  the  Sprites  of 
mbol  with  Joy  unconfined. 


is  shaking  the  world  with  laughter 

BURRESS  and  JUNE  KHTH 

their  sides  in  the  five  reels 
merriment 


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Vol.  12.   No.  19, 


X 


TO 

ELSS  AN  A  Y 

ATEST 

CR 

By  Hobart  C.  Chatfield-Taylor 

E.  H.  CALVERT 

are  featured  in  this 

WAR 


The  scenes  are  laid  on  the  historic  war 
grounds  of  Europe  where  the  present 
battle  line  is  drawn.  The  play  shows 
all  the  terrors  and  heroism  of  the  battle- 
field but  is  strictly  neutral  in  sentiment. 
Book  through  the  V.  L.  S.  E. 


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ARMS! 

presents  the  year's 

BATTLE  DRAMA 


LMSON  WING" 

Directed  hy^.  Hv^jCalv^rt  ^ 


Directed  hy{^.  H. 

and 

spectacular  6  a^tc^Wtodrama  of 

and  ROMANCE 


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Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


THE  INDIAN'S^ 
AIM  IS  TRUE^ 

The  Indian  Head  brand  of  photoplays  always 
hits  the  mark.  • 

Ask  the  exhibitor  who  has  booked  these  great] 
Essanay  feature  plays : 

"INTHE  PALACE  OF  THE  KING" 

(in  6  acts) 

By  F.  Marion  Crawford.    Directed  by  Fred  E-  Wright 

Featuring  RICHARD  C  TRAVERS,  E.  J.  RATCLIFFE,  1 
NELL    CRAIG,    ERNEST    MAUPAIN,  ARLEEN 
HACKETT,    LILLIAN    DREW,    LEWIS  EDGARD, 
SYDNEY     AINSWORTH     AND  THOMAS 
COMMERFORD. 

"THE  MAN  TRAIL"  onbacts) 

By  Henry  Oyen.    Directed  by  E.  Calvert 

Featuring  RICHARD  C.  TRAVERS 

A  BUNCH  OF  KEYS"  (i„5  acts; 

By  Charles  Hoyt.    Directed  by  Richard  Foster  Baker 

Featuring  JUNE  KEITH,  JOHN  SLAVIN  and 
WILLIAM  BURRESS 

The  Blindness  of  Virtue"  SsI 

By  Cosmo  Hamilton.    Directed  by  Joseph  Byron  Tottcn 

Featuring  EDNA  MAYO  and  BRYANT  WASHBURN 

"THE  WHITE  SISTER"  in  6 acts 

By  F.  Marion  Craw.'ord.    Directed  by  Fred  E.  Wright 

Featuring  VIOLA  ALLEN  and  RICHARD  C.  TRAVERS 

"THE  SLIM  PRINCESS",in4c 


acts) 


By  George  Ade.    Directed  by  E.  H.  Calvert 

Featuring  RUTH  STONEHOUSE 

"GRAUSTARK"  (in  6  acts) 

By  C«opgo  B»rr  McCutchton.   Directed  by  Fred  E.  Wright 


"FIR5T  TO   STAMDARDIZE  PHOTOPLAYJ"' 


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You  can  book 


looking  at  them 

ESSA.NAY  gives  you  this  guarantee  oa  all  its  release. 

It  selects  for  its  photoj^lays  only  stories  of  proven  worth,  fascinating 

and  morally  clean. 

Its  directors  are  thoroughly  trained  in  the  technique  of  their  art, 
insuring  logical,  artistic  pictures. 

Its  actors  are  the  best,  guaranteeing  a  vivid  and  exact  interpretation, 
ESSANAY  criticizes  every  picture  and  permits  of  no  release  that  does 
not  reach  its  high  standard  in  every  detail. 

WATCH  FOR 

CHARLES  CHAPLIN  G.  M.  Anderson 


In  the  next  great 


Essanay- Chaplin  Comedy 

"A  Night  in  the  Snow" 


in  his  famous 
one  and  two  act 


in  two  acts 

*  "THE  UNDERTOW" 


3-ACT  DRAMA  NQVEIMBER  15 

A  photoplay  of  gripping  intensity,  wifh 
Richard  C.  Tipavers  and  June  Keith 

"C ANIMATED  NOOZ  PICTORIAL  NO.  2" 

CARTOON  NOVElVtBER  17 

By  Wallace  A.  Carlson 
Live  news  of  the  day  in  pictures 

"TOO  MUCH  TURKEY" 

A  THANKSGIVING  PLAY  NOVEMBER  19 

Featuring 

G.  M.  ANDERSON 


Western  Dramas 

Thrilling  and 
intensely  human 

3.ACT  DRAMA  NOVEMBER  16 

A  touching  heart  romance,  with. 
Edna  Mayo  and  Darvin  Karr 

"SNAKEVILLE'S  EUGENIC  MARRIAGE'' 

COMEDY  NOVEMBER  18 

A  western  fun  maker  that  makes 
you  hold  your  sides 

"THE  RIVER  OF  ROMANCE" 

2-ACT  DRAMA  NOVEMBER  20 

Produced  in  conjunction  with  the  Birmingham, 
Ala.,  Age  Herald,  featuring  John  Lorenz 
and  Elizal>eth  Tinder 


Released  through  the  General  Film  Co. 


A  60  foot  scene  strip  of  Essana^'s  big  features  Isthe  best  way  to  adverttse  these  photoplays  In  your  theatre,  V.  L.  8.  E.  brsncb  offloei. 

Special  6-sheet  muslin  Chaplin  posters  -      -      -     -      tl.7&  j  Essanay 

25  foot  strips  of  Essanay  stars  1.60  I  Pabllolty  Dept. 

Life  size  Chaplin  out-outs  for  lobby  sUnds.    K.50  at  the  General  Film  Co.  offices. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Poe  Brought  to  Life  Through 
Genius  of  Henry  B.  Walthall 

No  tragedy  sears  the  soul  of  man  as  the  loss  of  the  woman  he  loves. 

Edgar  Allan  Poe,  in  the  death  of  his  wife,  drained  to  the  lees  the  cup  of  sorrow.   To  his 
grief  was  the  added  sting  of  death  by  cold  and  starvation. 

Through  night's  long  hours  he  knelt  by  her  body  in  a  bare,  wind-swept  room,  his  spirit 
broken,  his  soul  tasting  the  dregs  of  uttermost  despair. 

Out  of  heart-rending  tragedy  his  genius  spoke  in  "The  Raven.**  He  probed  to  the  depths 
those  unfathomable  mysteries  of  life.  He  pictured  the  greatest  happiness  that 
comes  to  man — Love,  and  the  greatest  desolation — -Death.  This  is  why  **The  Raven** 
strikes  straight  to  the  heart. 

Henry  B.  Walthall,  the  image  of  Poe,  a  man  of 
the  same  mold  and  temperament,  who 
thinks  and  feels  as  did  Poe,  interprets 
America's  greatest  poet  as  no  other  living 
being  could. 

His  genius  sparkles  on  the  screen  as  did  Poe*s 
in  literature.  He  gives  to  the  world  a 
living  Poe,  the  Poe  of  Love  and  Song, 
the  Poe  of  Hope  and  Happiness,  the  Poe 
of  Desolation  and  Despair. 

This  great  presentation  is 
embodied  in  Essanay's 
six-act  photoplay,  de- 
picting the  life  of  Poe, 
as  written  by  George 
C.  Hazelton  and  di- 
rected by  Charles  J. 
Brabin.  Mr.  Walthall 
is  ably  supported  by 
Warda  Howard  and 
an  all  star  cast. 


Tr«d«inark  Re«. 
U,  S.  Pat.  IK? 


•'FIR5T   TO   STAMDARDIZE  PHOTOPLAYS" 


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B«  WW  to  raeBtiOD  "MOTIOK  PICTTOE  KFW8"  wh«ii  writing  t«  adrerHseTS. 


"When  You  See  it 
in  'The  News' 
It's  NEWS- 


LOS  ANGELES,  CAUFORNIA 
427  SO.  FIGUEROA  STREET 


Volume  XII 


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NEW  YORK.  CITY 
TWO  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY  WEST  FORTY-SECOND  STREET 


NOVEMBER  13.  1915 


"The  Exhibitors' 

Medium  of 
Communication" 


CHICAGO.  ILLINOIS 
no  so.  DEARBORN  STREET 


No.  19 


Putting  the  Cart  Before  the  Horse 


ONCE  upon  a  time  the  bread-making  business  was  in  a 
disorganized  condition. 

A  lot  of  people — too  many — were  making  bread. 
A  vast  amount  of  it  grew  stale  before  it  could  be  sold. 

Finally,  one  baker  said  to  himself :  "Ever_vone  wants 
bread.  I  can  sell  every  loaf  I  can  make.  All  I  need  is  a 
proper  method  of  distribution." 

So  he  sat  down  and  worked  out  a  distributing  system 
that  was  one  of  the  seventh  wonders  of  the  world.  Ex- 
pense was  no  consideration. 

LJE  had  a  squadron  of  gorgeous  delivery  wagons  built 
*■  *  to  order.  None  but  thoroughbred  horses  drew  them 
through  the  city  streets. 

He  opened  fifty  or  seventy-five  stores  with  plate  glass 
fronts  and  de  luxe  trimmings,  marble  counters,  immacu- 
lately-dressed clerks,  and  uniformed  flunkeys  to  let  the 
customers  in  and  out. 

He  canvassed  the  residential  districts  like  a  ward  boss, 
and  had  a  delivery  list  running  into  the  thousands.  He 

advertised  like  a  circus, 

*  *  * 

a  month  his  stores  were  crowded.  Then  his  trade 
took  a  terrific  tumble.  In  two  weeks  it  was  so  bad 
that  the  store  managers  nearly  had  heart  failure  when  they 
saw  a  stranger  enter  the  store. 

The  only  busy  part  of  his  system  was  the  main  office, 
where  he  had  to  hire  an  extra  force  of  clerks  to  handle 
notices  from  his  customers  to  discontinue  serving  them 
after  that  date.  After  that  was  over,  he  fired  the  entire 
staflf,  with  the  exception  of  one  man,  and  told  him  that  if  he 
would  report  every  other  Tuesday,  he'd  find  enough  to 
keep  him  busy  for  a  couple  of  hours. 

Then  he  shut  himself  in  his  office  and  began  to  hunt 
for  the  answer.  While  he  was  so  engaged,  a  friend  in  the 
same  line  of  business  dropped  in  to  call. 

*  *  * 

**I  THOUGHT  you'd  gone  out  of  business  entirely,"  said 
the  friend. 

"Not  yet,    but  presently,"  said  the  baker. 

"Why  should  you?"  the  friend  inquired.  "You've  got 
a  sales  system  that  is  the  envy  of  all  your  competitors. 
Six  weeks  ago  we  all  thought  you  had  the  town  bottled  up.'' 

"That  was  six  weeks  ago,"  murmured  the  baker  wearily. 

*  *  * 

»*WAIT  till  I  get  through,"  said  the  friend.  "There's 
iust  one  thing  the  matter  with  your  proposition." 

"Yes?"  exclaimed  the  baker,  eagerly.  "For  Heaven's 
sake,  what  is  it?    I've  been  looking  everywhere  for  it." 

"Your  bread."  returned  the  friend. 

"My  bread?*"  echoed  the  baker. 

"Yes,  your  bread.  The  people  won't  stand  for  it.  Every 


time  you  sell  a  loaf  you  lose  a  customer.  Once  is  once  too 
many  for  them. 

"Your  bread  is  either  overdone  or  underdone,  or  it's 
soggy,  or  hard  or  tasteless.  People  aren't  ultra-finicky 
about  bread,  but  they're  too  particular  to  buy  your  kind 
more  than  once. 

"That's  where  the  rest  of  us  come  in.  You've  got  the 
system.  We've  got  the  goods.  The  people  will  pay  for 
the  system  if  you  deliver  them  the  goods,  but  not  other- 
wise." 


DL'T  think  of  my  enormous  expense,"  complained  the 

baker.    "I  had  to  economize  somewhere." 
"Sure  you  did,"  retorted  the  friend.    "But  you  econ- 
omized in  the  wrong  place. 

"If  you  had  put  some  of  the  thousands  into  your  bread 
that  you  put  into  the  varnish  on  your  wagons  or  the  pedi- 
grees of  your  horses,  you'd  be  on  the  corner  of  Easy  street 
and  Luxury  avenue  today." 

"Do  you  really  think  so?"  asked  the  baker. 

"No,  I  don't  think  so,"  replied  the  friend.    "I  know  it." 

jV/jORAL — A  good  distributing  system  is  all  right,  pro- 
viding you  have  the  goods  to  distribute. 
A  rather  obvious  moral,  it  would  seem,  and  yet  one  not 
readily  recognized  as  applicable  to  pictures. 

*  ^ 

■"THERE  are  many  ways  to  sell  pictures  successfully — 
comprehensive  distributing  facilities ;  efifective  selling' 
methods ;  advertising  to  the  public — all  these  are  necessary 
factors. 

_  But  all  of  these  are  based  upon  one  greater  factor — good 
pictures ;  and  all  of  these  are  bound  sooner  or  later  to 
collapse  if  they  are  not  based  upon  good  pictures. 

*  *  * 

"Y^OU  may  discuss  the  most  elaborate  schemes  to  increase 
the  circulation  of  pictures,  but  they  all  end  at  one 
point:  namely,  thev  must  be  based  upon  good  pictures. 
You  may  put  the  schemes  into  efifect  and  the  result  will  be 
the  same. 

Tf  one  man  today  owned  a  raw  stock  plant,  a  projection 
machine  plant,  a  great  distributing  svstem.  his  own  theatres 
and  advertised  to  the  million  people  dailv  he  would  not 
eventually  succeed  against  the  other  man  who  produces 
consistently  good  pictures— for  the  simple  reason  that  the 
public  will  go  to  see  the  latter's  pictures.  You  cannot 
divert  them  except  with  better  pictures. 

^  *       *  * 

QOOD  pictures  are  the  basis  of  success,  the  only  basis- 
^  and,  let  it  never  be  forgotten,  the  basis  of  the  good 
picture  IS  the  story  told  upon  the  screen. 

■WiLLAM  A.  Johnston. 


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Vol.  XII 


November  13,  1915. 


No.  19 


Publicity  As  It  Was  and  As  It  Is 

ONE  of  the  best  proofs  that  the  making  and  marketing 
of  motion  pictures  is  becoming  a  business  is  the 
new  attitude  of  the  publicity  men  of  the  various 
producers  toward  the  newspapers. 

Formerly  it  was  like  every  other  transaction  in  the  field, 
a  game — a  game  of  bluflf,  of  poker,  of  "how  much  can  I 
get,"  versus  "how  little  can  I  give  you  ?" 

When  the  editor  saw  the  press  agent,  or  his  sheet,  com- 
ing, he  put  his  valuables  in  the  safe,  figuratively  speaking, 
and  hung  out  his  "Busy  Day"  sign.  If  the  press  agent 
got  anything  at  all,  it  was  not  because  he  could  offer  news, 
but  because  he  was  advertising  in  the  columns  of  the 
paper. 

*       *  * 

A  ND  the  whole  object  of  the  encounter  was  to  create, 
■^"^  out  of  a  cloud  of  rhetoric,  a  mirage  of  news,  so 
that  the  editor  imagined  he  was  not  being  fooled  by  simon- 
pure  publicity  "dope." 

The  prime  mistake  of  the  old  press  agent  was  that  he 
tried  to  create  news,  forgetting  that  news  is  news  because 
it  cannot  be  created.  It  may  be  discovered,  unearthed, 
dug  up  from  where  it  lies  buried,  but  "news"  that  is 
invented  is  fiction  and  nothing  else. 

'X'HOSE  days,  in  a  very  material  degree,  are  over. 
^  Not  altogether,  of  course,  because  a  good  many 
press  agents  still  cling  to  the  old-fasliioned  way  of  get- 
ting publicity.  But  the  younger,  progressive,  intelligent 
press-agent  knows  better. 

Real  confidence  and  respect  on  the  part  of  the  news- 
paper and  the  motion  picture  publicity  man,  and  incident- 
ally, for  motion  pictures,  began  when  the  publicity  man 
stopped  writing  news  items  as  if  he  were  filling  so  much 
space  he  had  bought  at  the  regular  advertising  rates,  and 
began  to  write  as  he  knew  the  other  contribucors  to  the 
paper  were  required  to  write. 

In  all  these,  the  realization  that  the  short  item  is  the 
backbone  of  a  company's  effective  publicity  is  increas- 


ingly apparent.  It  must,  and  it  will,  become  more  so, 
until  the  short  item  has  received  the  predominant  recogni- 
tion it  deserves  on  every  press  sheet  in  the  business. 

■"THE  big  quarter-page,  half-page  or  full  page  story  is 
fine. 

Biit  its  most  exhilarating  effect  is  upon  the  press  agent 
who  "puts  it  over." 

And  the  big  story,  in  itself,  fails  because  it  cannot  be 
repeated  often  enough. 

It  is  the  daily  stream  of  paragraphs,  notices,  news 
brevities  given  to  the  readers  of  a  newspaper  every  day 
in  the  week  that  drives  home  the  publiciiy  to  its  destina- 
tion. 

IVithout  these  the  big  story  is  as  barren  in  results  as  a 
display  of  fireworks,  and  it  is  only  worth  anything  because 
it  is  connected  by  these  slender  but  powerful  chains  of 
day-in.  day-out  publicity  which  the  self-centered  press- 
agent  affects  to  despise,  but  which  are  the  cornerstone  of 
his  efficiency. 


In  Time  of  Peace,  Prepare  for  War  Insanity 

nPHERE  have  been  numerous  startling  as  well  as 
■*■  ridiculous  instances  of  war  panic  and  hysteria,  both 
here  and  abroad,  since  August  1,  1914.  But  we  do  not 
recall  a  single  one  which,  for  stupidity  and  absurdity, 
parallels  the  action  of  the  motion  picture  censor  for  Brit- 
ish Columbia  in  regard  to  the  Universal  feature,  "Judy 
Forgot." 

"Judy  Forgot"  was  condemned  by  the  censor  for  the 
province.  The  reason  he  gave  for  his  verdict  was — un- 
believable as  this  may  seem — that  the  picture  was  part 
of  a  great  German  propaganda. 

The  picture  is  a  farce-comedy.  It  was  written  and  pro- 
duced in  this  country  before  any  such  catastrophe  as 
a  European  war  was  thought  of,  except  in  the  chancel- 
leries of  Europe.  The  single  element  of  German  atmos- 
phere in  the  entire  production  is  that  the  bride  and  bride- 
groom spend  their  honeymoon  in  Heidelberg,  and  con- 
sequently a  few  of  the  scenes  of  the  production  are  laid 
there. 

If  the  censor  knew  as  much  about  motion  pictures  as 
he  imagines  he  knows  about  German  propaganda,  he 
would  be  very  seriously  inclined  to  doubt  whether  the 
scenes  were  made  in  Heidelberg. 

None  of  these  perfectly  evident  and  accessible  facts 
made  any  impression  upon  him.  The  word  "Heidelberg" 
in  the  sub-titles  had  the  same  effect  upon  him  that  a 
mouse  has  upon  a  woman.  And  he  behaved  as  a  woman 
would  toward  a  mouse — only  more  so. 

The  whole  incident,  apart  from  its  war  aspects,  proves, 
of  course,  that  the  British,  while  they  have  developed  most 
of  their  other  resources,  are  still  as  far  behind  America 
as  ever  in  their  sense  of  humor. 


The  Daily  Press  and  the  Picture 

CEW  newspapers,  as  yet.  have  reduced  their  reviews 
^     of  motion  pictures  to  a  sound  and  sensible  basis. 

That  is  to  say,  they  do  not  understand  that  the  picture 
is  to  be  criticised  as  a  picture,  not  as  an  offshoot  of  the 
stage  play.  Thev  occupy  a  great  deal  of  space  in  reassur- 
ing themselves  that  the  silent  drama  can  never  take  the 
place  of  the  spoken  drama. 

What  they  should  be  doing  is  telling  their  readers  the 
irerits  or  the  defects  of  the  picture  under  review.  What 
the  stage  is.  or  was.  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  case. 
Comparisons  are  useless.  The  motion  picture  is  an  in- 
dividiial  art  in  itself,  and  t4ie  newspaper  critic  will  have 
to  learn  this  fact,  and  learn  something  of  what  that  art 
means,  before  his  criticisms  will  be  intelligent,  not  to  say, 
worth  anything  to  his  readers. 


November  13,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


45 


The  Press,  the  Press  Representative  and  the  Picture — V 

A  Dramatic  Editor  on  a  Detroit  Newspaper  Discusses  the  Handicaps  and  the  Obstacles  to  Real  Co-operation  with 
the  Manufacturers'  Press-Agents — Nor  Are  the  Exhibitors  Much  Better  or  More  Intelligent  in  Their  Recogni- 
tion of  What  the  Editor  Wants — How  a  Rotogravure  Section  Was  Received  by  the  Producers 


By  A.  L.  WEEKS 
Dramatic  Editor,  Detroit  News 

<<\V/tlY  don't  you  print  more  motion 
pictures?"  the  proprietor  of  a 
photoplay  theatre  asked  me  the 

day  before    your    representative    put  the 

same  question.    My  answer  to  both  was  the 

same : 

Because  the  matter  intended  for  publi- 
cation sent  me  by  the  film  producing  com- 
panies is  not  worth  putting  into  type. 
When  the  press  agent  of  a  two-dollar  at- 
traction comes  into  my  office  the  week  be- 
fore the  show  reaches  the  city,  he  has 
from  a  score  to  fifty  photographs,  a  dozen 
special  stories  and  as  many  reading  notices. 
From  this  variety  of  material  I  may 
choose  what  suits  my  purpose. 

The  motion  picture  theatres  almost  with- 
out exception  send  me  one  picture,  which 
I  must  use  or  use  none  at  all,  one  reading 
notice  which  is  either  cut  from  a  press 
sheet  or  mimeographed,  and  on  special 
stories. 

The  one  exception  in  Detroit  is  a  the- 
atre which  employs  a  press  agent,  who  is 
a  former  newspaper  man,  and  has  some 
idea  of  the  demands  of  a  newspaper. 

What  the  Manufacturers  Do 

One  company  sends  me  every  week  a 
dozen  photographs  taken  from  a  weekly 
serial  which  it  is  manufacturing.  With 
the  photographs  is  a  synopsis  of  the  week's 
instalment.  You  would  expect  that  the 
names  of  the  actors  would  be  written  on 
the  back  of  eacli  picture,  but  they  aren't. 

How  this  company  can  delude  itself  into 
thinking  that  any  newspaper  would  print 
either  the  synopsis  or  the  pictures  I  can- 
not understand.  The  whole  package 
(which  comes  under  a  ten-cent  stamp) 
goes  into  the  waste  basket. 

Several  film  companies  send  their  press 
matter  in  booklet  form,  verj  attractively 
printed,  but  it  probably  never  occurred  to 
them  that  if  an  editor  cuts  a  story  from 
the  page  of  their  pomphlet,  he  dstroys  the 
stories  on  the  other  side.  Often  a  story  is 
continued  over  the  page,  and  then  it  can- 
not be  used  at  all. 

Of  the  stories  which  come  on  neat  and 
business-like  sheets,  usually  fifty  per  cent, 
concern  some  dare-devil  exploits  of  some 
little  known  actors — the  stories  palpably 
fakes  and  not  worth  printing  even  if  they 
were  true  because  the  actors  are  not  prom- 
inent. 

Two  or  three  companies  send  mats  with 
their  press  matter.  My  paper  never  uses 
mats,  and  not  many  big  city  papers  do. 
Too  often  they  do  not  fit  the  columns  or 
are  either  too  coarse  or  too  fine  screen  for 
the  paper. 

A  Case  of  Indifference 

Some  months  ago  my  paper  began  the 
publication  of  an  expensive .  supplement  in 
the  rotogravure  process.  I  wrote  to  a 
dozen  film  companies  offering  to  print  pho- 
tographs of  their  stars  if  they  would  send 


them  to  me.  Three  or  four  sent  pictures ; 
others  wrote  that  they  would  send  them, 
that  the  matter  had  been  referred  to  Mr. 
So-and-So— and  the  pictures  never  came ; 
and  some  of  the  companies  never  acknowl- 
edged my  letter. 

The  extravagant  superlatives  of  tin-  the- 
atrical press  agent  have  long  been  axio- 
matic, but  I  don't  believe  that  P.  T.  Bar- 
num  in  his  palmiest  days  could  out-praise 
some  film  press  agents. 

One  theatre  sends  me  every  week  a 
reading  notice  to  which  it  is  entitled  by  its 
advertising  contracts.  Every  week  the  no- 
tice begins  with  the  statement  that  this  the 
finest  motion  picture  ever  produced.  The 
notice  continues  in  this  strain  and  of  course 
very  little  of  it  gets  into  the  paper. 


If  the  notice  were  worded  more  conserva- 
tively, I  would  print  twice  as  much  about 
the  film. 

I  don't  believe  my  experience  is  uncom- 
mon. Theatre  proprietors  say  I  am  preju- 
diced against  the  motion  picture.  Those 
who  know  me  know  I  am  not. 

But  I  am  prejudiced  against  press  matter 
which  is  either  lies  or  nonsense,  and  I 
won't  print  it.  We  editors — and  I  know 
I  speak  for  three — would  gladly  print  more 
about  the  photoplays  and  the  players  if  we 
could  get  it. 

We  realize  that  our  readers  want  it,  but 
I'm  afraid  we  must  do  without  it  until 
motion  pictures  develop  press  agents  who 
know  something  about  writing  for  news- 
papers. 


Paramount  Press"  Provides  Plenty  of  Available 
Supplementary  Material  for  Newspapers 


PARAMOUNT  PRESS 


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ILLUSTRATING  THE  ARRANGEMENT  OF  MATERIAL  IN  THE  PARAMOUNT  PRESS  SHEET 


PARAMOUNT  PRESS,  the  weekly 
clip-sheet  issued  by  the  Paramount 
Pictures  Corporation  for  use  by  news- 
papers, is  another  commendable  example  of 
intelligent  endeavor  to  obtain  the  co-oper- 
ation of  the  newspaper  by  co-operating 
with  the  newspaper.  Last  week's  subject, 
the  Selig  Polyscope  Company's  Paste  Pot 
and  Shears,  treated  in  some  detail  on  this 
page,  bears  little  or  no  resemblance  to 
Paramount  Press,  but  the  two  are  equally 
available  in  form,  and  the  presentation  of 
news,  even  though  Paramount  Press,  as 
a  single  sheet,  is  necessarily  more  limited 
than  the  "two  pages  in  four"  Paste  Pot  and 
Shears. 


Within  the  limits  of  the  single  sheet, 
however,  the  results  are  such  as  to  engage 
the  favor  of  the  motion  picture  department 
editor. 

Newspaper  make-up,  simple  and  clear  in 
form,  is  employed,  the  five  leading  stories 
of  the  issue  ranging  across  the  top  of  the 
page.  Where  cuts  are  to  be  used,  a  sample 
cut  is  shown  in  the  body  of  the  story,  and 
occasionally  special  cuts,  not  connected 
with  any  particular  item,  are  inserted,  the 
result  being  an  average  of  four  or  five  illus- 
trations to  an  issue.  A  two  column  de- 
partment of  squibs  and  personalities  is  set 
in  at  the  bottom  of  the  page  under  the 
caption,  "Just  the  Gist  of  It." 


46 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


One  marked  difference  between  Para- 
viouiit  Press  and  Paste  Pot  and  Shears 
may  be  noticed. 

No  attempt  is  made  by  the  Paramount 
press-sheet  to  furnish  complete  data  of  the 
month's  releases,  as  in  the  case  of  the 
Selig  weekly.  The  Paramount  organ  is  is- 
sued upon  the  assumption,  it  would  seem, 
that  the  elementary  information  concern- 
ing titles,  casts,  release  dates  and  plots  will 
be  supplied  to  the  newspapers  by  the  Para- 
mount exhibitors  in  each  city. 

The  Aim  of  Paramount  Press 

The  aim  of  Paramount  Press  is,  there- 
fore, to  furnish  the  editors  with  additional 
material  of  a  semi-feature  of  special  nature, 
of  usable  length,  but  designed  to  supple- 
ment the  theatre's  announcements,  and  pro- 
vide reading  matter  of  general  interest  to 
the  readers  about  Paramount  stars  and 
affairs. 

The  question  is  not  one  of  superiority  of 
method.  The  two  methods  are  different 
and  distinct.  The  popularity  of  both  press- 
sheets  is  enough  to  prove  that  both  are 
practically  successful.  We  are  comparing 
them  merely  for  the  sake  of  pointing  out 
various  ways  of  approach  to  the  newspaper, 
each   equally  good. 

The  general  appearance  of  Paramount 
Press  reminds  one,  too,  that  the  press-sheet 
of  the  present  day  is  acquiring  a  refresh- 
ing sense  of  modesty  as  to  the  irnportancc 
of  its  company  and  its  product  in  the  life 
of  the  nation.  Its  editor  no  longer  spends 
his  time  in  ringing  all  possible  changes  on 
the  name  of  his  company.  He  has  gained  a 
sense  of  news  values. 

Now  on  a  News  Basis 

He  assumes  the  interest  of  the  news- 
paper in  motion  pictures  in  general.  He 
assumes — as  it  is  now  possible  to  do — that 
its  editors  are  aware  of  the  existence  of  his 
company;  if  not,  he  introduces  himself  and 
his  company.  But  he  only  asks  to  be  al- 
lowed to  contribute  a  proportionate  share 
of  the  newspaper's  motion  picture  news, 
and  asks  only  that  the  stories  be  accepted 
for  what  they  are  worth.  If  they  are  not 
used  the  fault  is  his.  They  should  have 
been  better  stories. 

Paramount  Press  is  an  example  of  this 
new  attitude.  Past  Pot  and  Shears  is  an- 
other. The  Metro  press  sheet,  which  will  be 
reviewed  here  next  week,  is  a  third. 


ILLUSTRATING  "THE  BLINDNESS  OF  DEVOTION,"  FOX  PRODUCTION 


EOBEET  B.  MANTELL  AND  GENEVIEVE  HAMPEE  AEE  8TAEEED  IN  THIS  NOV.  7  RELEASE 


Triangle  Service  Signed  for  200  Theatres  Already 

Company  Expects  to  Put  the  Pictures  on  in  250  Houses  Before  the  Release  Days,  November 
7-8,  Are  Due,  and  Places  No  Limit  on  Ejcpectations  After  That  Date 


THE  Triangle  Film  Corporation  an- 
nounces that  up  to  the  end  of  October 
contracts  have  been  made  with  more  than 
two  hundred  theatres  for  the  Triangle  serv- 
ice, the  first  week  of  which  is  released  No- 
vember 7-8.  It  is  considered  projjable  that 
the  service  will  start  with  at  least  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  houses.  Judged  by  the  eager- 
ness of  exhibitors  to  enlist  under  the  Tri- 
angle banner,  the  opening  of  the  New  Year 
should  witness  double  that  number  of  thea- 
tres giving  the  Triangle  plays. 

One  reason  for  this  is  that  a  considerable 
number  of  the  contracts  signed  thus  far  are 
with  so-called  "service"  theatres.  Leading 
exhibitors,  like  W.  H.  Kemble,  of  Brooklyn ; 
Jake  Wells,  of  Norfolk  and  Richmond; 
Hulsey,  of  Dallas  and  Houston,  expect  to 
widen  out  the  service  from  their  own  imme- 
diate houses  to  allied  neighboring  houses 
that  appreciate  the  enormous  prestige  and 
great  drawing  powers  of  film  attractions 
supervised  by  Griffith,  Ince  and  Sennett. 

Looking  over  the  list  of  more  than  two 
hundred  Triangle  exhibitors,  one  notes  the 
unusual  number  of  "big  c\Xy"  legitimate 
playhouses  included  therein.  Thus  the 
Kernan  Estate  interests  in  Baltimore,  rep- 
resented by  Messrs.  Renton  and  Schan- 
berger.  are  remodeling  the  Auditorium  the- 
atre there  for  the  Triangle  plays  and  will 
keep  the  house  up  to  the  same  high  stand- 
ard as  their  Maryland  theatre,  the  home  of 
"big  time"  vaudeville. 

It  is  rumored  that  one  of  the  most  im- 


portant downtown  playhouses  in  Pitts- 
burgh will  have  the  service  as  soon  as  a 
great  attraction,  now  playing  there,  com- 
pletes its  run.  Poll's  will  have  it  in  New 
Haven,  the  Mishler  and  Scherer  houses  in 
Johnstown  and  Altoona,  the  Liberty  in 
Cleveland,  the  Gaiety  in  Springfield.  111., 
the  New  Isis  in  Denver,  the  Minneapolis 
in  Minneapolis,  the  Liberty  theatres  in 
Seattle  and  Spokane,  the  Majestic  at  Des 
Moines,  the  Proctor  houses,  suburban  to 
New  York,  the  Trent  in  Trenton,  the  Jake 
Wells  theatres  in  the  eastern  South,  the 
Crescent  (now  the  Triangle)  in  Brookh-n, 
the  Powers  in  Grand  Rapids,  the  Southern 
in  Columbus,  and  many  others. 

Among  the  picture  magnates  who  have 
taken  the  Triangle  for  their  distinctively 
picture-exhibition  theatres  may  be  named 
B.  S.  Moss,  A.  L.  Shakmann,  Picker  and 
Bennett  in  Manhattan  and  the  Bronx; 
Nathan  Ascher,  A.  M.  Andrews,  A.  Bartel- 
son  in  Chicago ;  Simpson  and  Gordon  in 
Rochester ;  W.  A.  True  in  Hartford ;  C.  J. 
Gross  in  Dayton;  S.  M.  Baxter  in  Denver; 
J.  G.  Evins  for  Atlanta;  T.  S.  Abernethy 
for  Birmingham ;  Wassman  for  Nashville ; 
E.  H.  Hulsey  for  Dallas,  Houston.  Galves- 
ton and  Waco ;  Jensen  for  Seattle,  and 
Clune  for  southern  California  theatres. 
These  are  names  of  exhibitors  picked  al- 
most at  random  from  the  list. 

Small  towns,  as  well  as  medium-sized 
ones,  and  all  the  large  cities,  are  in  the  list. 
The  exhibitor  at  Plainfield  or  Watertown  or 
Moline  or  Massillon  or  Gadsden  will,  of 
course,  give  on\y  a  sixty  or  ninety-minute 
entertainment  and  the  musical  features  will 
necessarily  be  less  pretentious  than,  say, 
the  Auditorium,  Baltimore,  can  afford ;  but 
the  films  will  be  identical.  The  small-town 
patron  will  get  "The  Lamb,"  "The  Iron 
Strain,"  "My  \'alet"  and  "A  Game  Old 
Knight,"  with  Fairbanks.  Farnum,  Hitch- 
cock and  ^Murray. 


NEW   GEITFITH  FINE  AETS  AND  EELIANCE 
LABOEATORY   BUILDING   AND  LARGE 


STTTDIO.  HOLLYWOOD,  CAL.,  SHOWING  NEW 
HIGH   DIFFUSING   STAGE   IN  REAR 


MARGOT  \nLLIAMS  WITH  MINA 

Margot  Williams  is  capering  for  MinA 
in  their  release  of  November  11,  "An  Eye 
Too  Many." 

Born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  Miss  Williams 
romped  through  her  childhood  and  school- 
days there.  Always  possessing  a  hankering 
for  the  footlights".  Miss  Williams  finally 
left  Louisville  for  New  York,  and  danced 
in  the  ballet  of  "Ben  Hur." 


November  13,  1915  MOTION    PICTURE    NEWS  47 

Big  Four  Gets  Ready  for  Big  Hit  in  Year-End  List 

More  Strong  War  Dramas  to  Stir  Patriotism  Following  Vitagraph's  "The  Battle  Cry  of  Peace" — A  Lubin,  Entitled  "The 
Nation's  Peril,"  and  a  Selig,  "I'm  Glad  My  Boy  Grew  Up  to  Be  a  Soldier,"  Meant  as  an  Answer  to  the  Senti- 
ments Expressed  in  a  Certain  Weak-Kneed  Song,  and  Other  Good  Plays 


WITH    two    war  '  plays — Vitagraph's 
"The  Battle  Cry  of  Peace,"  and 
Lubin's   "The  Rights   of  Man"— 
the  V-L-S-E's  program  for  the  next  quar- 
ter, will  bear  three  other  dramas. 

The  first  of  these,  an  Essanay  extra, 
is  called  "The  Crimson  Wing."  Hobart  C. 
Chatfield-Taylor,  the  author  of  "The  Crim- 
son Wing,"  is  a  well-known  Chicago  and 
Washington  society  leader  and  litterateur. 
He  therefore  made  the  most  of  his  wide 
acquaintance  among  people  of  wealth,  and 
secured  the  grounds  and  homes  of  such 
prominent  personages  as  Harold  and  Cyrus 
McCormick,  Orville  Babcock,  James  Ward 
Thorne,  Scott  Durand  and  Howard  Shaw, 
for  his  garden  and  villa  scenes. 

E.  H.  Calvert,  a  West  Point  man,  who 
spent  fourteen  years  in  active  service  with 
the  U.  S.  army,  plays  the  leading  role  with 
R^ith  Stonehouse.  M.r.  -Calvert  also  di- 
refcts  the  play.  ' 

Following  this  war  play,  Lubin  will  re- 
lease through  the  V-L-S-E,  a  drama  of 
preparedness  againSt  yizr  called  "The  Na- 
tion's Peril."  Thus  ifi^'-'scheduled  to  appear 
November  22.  It  will  probably  be  in  five 
reels,  featuring  Ormi  Hawley  and  Earl 
Metcalfe. 

Uncle  Sam's  Ships  in  a  Lubin 

The  entire  Atlantic  squadron,  including 
battleships,  torpedo  boats,  submarines,  de- 
stroyers and  a  marine  corps  were  utilized 
in  making  this  picture.  It  was  directed  by 
George  W.  Terwilliger. 

Selig  is  the  remaining  manufacturer  of 
the  Big  Four  to  capitalize  the  public's  in- 
terest in  the  question  of  international  ar- 
gument. Its  release,  scheduled  for  Decem- 
ber 13,  will  be  a  Red  Seal  play  entitled, 
"I'm  Glad  My  Boy  Grew  Up  to  Be  a 
Soldier."  As  is  apparent,  it  is  an  answer 
to  the  popular  song,  "I  Didn't  Raise  My 
Boy  to  Be  a  Soldier."  Harry  Mestayer, 
the  notable  stage  star,  will  enact  the  lead- 
ing role.  He  will  be  supported  by  Eugenie 
Besserer,  and  an  all-star  cast.  Gilson  Wil- 
lets  is  the  author  of  the  drama,  and  Frank 
Beals  the  producer. 

"The  Raven,"  is  to  be  released  November 
8  by  Essanay,  through  the  V-L-S-E.  Those 
who  have  seen  the  play  say  that  the  acting 
of  Henry  B.  Walthall  as  Edgar  Allan  Poe, 
will  stand  as  a  high-light  in  the  photoplay 
school  of  interpretation  for  a  long  time  to 
come. 

Essanay  will  follow  this  feature  with  a 
five-part  drama,  to  be  released  December 
6,  called  "The  Alster  Case,"  featuring 
Bryant  Washburn  and  Ruth  Stonehouse. 

Walthall  Again 

On  December  20,  "A  Daughter  of  the 
City,"  in  five  parts  showing  E.  H.  Calvert 
and  Marguerite  Clayton,  will  be  released. 
Mr.  Walthall  again  makes  his  return  on 
January  3,  with  Edna  Mayo  in  a  six-part 
drama  from  the  Broadway  success,  "The 
Misleading  Lady." 

Selig's  contribution  to  the  V-L-S-E  pro- 
gram for  November,  will  be  an  idyllic  pro- 


duction of  Charles  Major's  story,  "Sweet 
Alyssum,"  in  which  Tyrone  Power  and 
Kathlyn  Williams  will  be  starred. 

The  next  Lubin  release  after  that  of  "The 
Nation's  Peril,"  will  be  on  December  6, 
when  the  story  of  sea  life,  captioned  "The 
Man's  Making"  will  be  released.  This  was 
produced  hy  Jack  Pratt,  with  Richard 
Buhler  in  the  leading  role,  Rosetta  Brice 
supporting.    It  is  in  five  parts. 

On  December  20  this  company  will  show 
Edgar  Lewis'  first  production  for  the  Lu- 
bin Company,  dramatized  from  William 
Vaughn  Moody's  "The  Great  Divide."  It 
was  produced  at  the  Grand  Canyon,  Arizona, 
with  Ethel  Clayton  and  House  Peters.  Oth- 
ers of  the  cast  are  Mary  Moore,  Warner  P. 
Richmond  and  Hayden  Stevenson.  This 
also  is  in  five  parts. 

Hitchcock  in  January  Comedy 

In  January,  Raymond  Hitchcock  will  be 
seen  in  a  Lubin  comedy  in  five  reels,  proba- 
bly called  "The  Wonderful  Wager,"  based 
on  the  story  of  "The  Ford  Flivver,"  writ- 
ten by  George  V.  Hobart,  and  adopted  for 
the  screen  by  Mark  Swan. 

In  this  picture,  the  entire  Washburn  cir- 
cus will  be  used. 

Three  V-L-S-E  releases  are  announced 
for  November  by  the  Vitagraph  Company. 
"The  Turn  of  the  Road,"  a  five-part  fea- 
ture produced  by  Tefft  Johnson,  in  which 
Virginia  Pearson,  Joseph  Kilgour,  Bobby 
Connelly,  Naomi  Childers  and  Robert  Gail- 


lard,  will  be  seen  in  the  portrayal  of  the 
principal  roles,  is  the  first,  to  be  released 
November  1. 

A  Cyrus  Townsend  Brady  story,  "Heights 
of  Hazard,"  that  contains  every  known 
thrill,  will  add  additional  interest  to  the 
month's  program.  It  will  be  released  No- 
vember 15.  "Heights  of  Hazard"  is  also 
a  five-part  feature  and  will  introduce 
Charles  Richman,  Eleanor  Woodruff  and 
Charles  Kent  in  the  leading  characteriza- 
tions. 

Robert  Edeson,  Fay  Wallace,  Lillian 
Burns,  Charles  Eldridge,  John  T.  Kelly, 
and  a  special  cast  of  Vitagraph  players,  will 
be  seen  in  "The  Cave  Man,"  on  November 
29,  produced  under  the  direction  of  Theo- 
dore Marston. 

On  December  13  there  will  be  released, 
"A  Price  for  Folly,"  one  of  the  strongest 
dramas  on  the  Vitagraph  program.  It  was 
written  by  George  P.  Dillenbeck,  and  pro- 
duced in  five  parts  by  George  D.  Baker, 
with  Edith  Storey,  Antonio  Moreno,  Harry 
Morey,  Charles  Kent,  Louise  Beaudet, 
Ethel  Corcoran  and  Arthur  Cozine. 

Frank  Daniels,  the  inimitable  king  of 
comedy,  whose  first  Vitagraph  release, 
"Crooky,"  established  him  as  a  screen 
comedian  in  a  class  by  himself,  will  round 
out  the  year's  Vitagraph  Blue  Ribbon  Fea- 
tures, on  December  27,  in  "What  Hap- 
pened to  Father,"  written  especially  for  him 
by  Mary  Roberts  Rinehart,  produced  by  C. 
Jay  Williams. 


"The  Battle  Cry  of  Peace"  Is  a  Call  to  Arms  in  Boston 

National  Defense  Picture  Takes  Public  by  Storm  and  Brings  Forth  Eulogium  from  Roosevelt» 
Who  Says  Every  American  Should  See  Blackton's  Production 

special  to  Motion  Picture  News  mann,  of  the  Gordon  amusement  interests, 

and  R.  W.  Drown.  Plans  will  be  announced. 

When  the  new  Toy  theatre  in  Providence, 
R.  I.,  a  theatre  which  is  one  of  the  most 
unique  in  the  United  States,  since  its  en- 
tire orchestra  floor  is  taken  up  by  loge 
boxes,  was  opened  for  private  inspection 
Sunday  night,  October  31,  an  audience  dis- 
tinguished by  the  presence  of  state,  city 
and  military  officials  was  present  to  view 
the  Vitagraph  spectacle,  "The  Battle  Cry 
of  Peace." 

The  high  officials  present  expressed  them- 
selves much  pleased  with  the  film,  and 
stated  that  they  recognized  the  great  good 
5uch  a  picture  could  do  for  the  country  in 
arousmg  the  people  to  a  sense  of  responsi- 
bility concerning  the  conditions  of  the  na- 
tion's defenses.  Leslie  H.  Allen. 


Boston,  Nov.  2. 
tt-yHE  BATTLE  CRY  OF  PEACE" 
A  was  shown  to  the  Boston  public 
for  the  first  time  Monday  night,  November 
1.  Where  "The  Birth  of  a  Nation"  had 
entertained  its  countless  patrons,  the  Vita- 
graph's silent  plea  for  preparedness  began 
its  bombardment  of  Boston. 

The  picture  made  a  marked  impression 
on  its  first  night.  As  former  President 
Roosevelt  remarked,  it  is  a  picture  every 
.American  should  see,  and  Boston  is  begin- 
ning to  realize  that  fact. 

The  various  scenes  which  depict  tlfe  in- 
vasion of  American  shores  and  the  help- 
lessness of  the  nation  to  withstand  that  in- 
vasion were  received  with  deep  thought  by 
the  first-night  audience.  Without  doubt 
the  seven  weeks  of  the  film's  run  at  the 
Majestic  theatre  will  bring  out  crowds. 

Meanwhile  the  New  England  rights  to 
"The  Battle  Cry  of  Peace"  have  been  sold 
to  a  syndicate.  What  the  price  is  no  one 
will  announce,  but  report  places  it  in  the 
vicinity  of  $60,000.  The  syndicate  which 
bought  the  rights  consists  of:  Frank  J. 
Howard,  pioneer  motion  picture  exhibitor 
in  this  section ;  Arthur  E.  Lord,  M.  Shool- 
man.  Nathan  H.  Gordon  and  Ernest  Hortz- 


ALBERT  MACKLIN  IN  JUVENILE  PARTS 
FOR  GAUMONT 

Albert  Macklin,  well  known  in  pictures 
as  a  juvenile  actor,  sailed  Tuesday,  Octo- 
ber 26,  with  the  Gaumont  companies,  to 
spend  the  winter  in  Florida  working  in 
pictures  for  that  organization. 

He  will  appear  in  Rialto  Star  Features 
photo-dramas. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


Best  in  "Butterfly"  Roles  Focused  in  Pickford  Part 

Little  Mary  Will  Probably  Create  Version  Embodying  All  Good  Points  in  Characterizations 
of  Cho-Cho-San  by  Operatic  and  Stage  Stars 


told 


((IF 

1  loved 
pictures,  I 
girl  would 
said  Mary 


that  she  were  to  play  the  be- 
little Cho-Cho-San  in  motion 
am  quite  sure  that  the  average 
be  overwhelmed  with  deliglit," 
Pickford  while  discussing  the 
forthcoming  production  of  John  Luther 
Long's  "Madame  Butterfly"  in  which  she  is 
to  be  featured  by  the  Famous  Players  Film 
Company. 

"So  was  L"  she  continued.  "But  my  joy 
soon  became  somewhat  clouded  with  ap- 
prehension when  I  realized  that  I  had  a 
great  many  precedents  and  several  pre-con- 
ceived  notions  concerning  Cho-Cho-San  to 
meet  satisfactorily.  When  Long's  story 
was  first  published  in  a  magazine  it  was 
widely  read.  The  readers  formed  their 
own  mental  pictures  of  the  little  Jap  girl. 
Then  it  appeared  as  a  book  and  was 
studied  by  thousands  more  who  likewise 
pictured  her  according  to  their  own  concep- 
tions. 

"Next  came  David  Belasco's  stage  ver- 
sion of  the  subject  in  which  Blanche  Bates 
gave  her  remarkable  interpretation  of  Cho- 
Cho-San.  The  next  stage  of  the  develop- 
ment of  the  story  was  the  operatic  presen- 
tation in  which  some  of  the  foremost 
singers  in  the  country  were  starred.  Final- 
ly, there  appeared  in  New  York  this  week 


I  was  over  my  first  appearance  before  the 
camera. 

"Now  that  the  film  is  all  complete," 
added  Miss  Pickford  wistfully,  "there  is 
nothing  to  do  but  sit  still  and  wait  for 
the  verdict  of  the  public  when  the  Para- 
mount releases  n 


AS  CHO-CHO-SAN  IN  "MADAME  BUTTERFLY," 
MAEY   PICKFOED   IS  AN  APPEALING  FIGURE 

a  Japanese  prima  donna,  the  first  native 
daughter  of  the  Flowery  Kingdom  to  sing 
the  role  in  this  country,  who  gives  her  ver- 
sion of  the  way  in  which  her  compatriot 
would  have  acted  under  the  conditions 
created  by  Long. 

"And  now  I  am  to  present  Cho-Cho-San 
— a  mute  Cho-Cho-San — on  the  screen.  It 
means  that  I  must  either  conform  to  all 
the  other  characterizations  or  create  a  dis- 
tinctly different  one  which  will  please  my 
audiences.  So  that  is  why  my  enthusiasm 
over  the  honor  and  privilege  of  playing 
'Madame  Butterfly'  on  the  screen  is  not 
unmixed  with  violent  tremors  of  apprehen- 
sion. Frankly,  I  feel  as  nervous  over  my 
first  oriental  role  as  I  did  over  my  first 
part  on  the  stage  when  I  was  a  mere  child, 
and  infinitely  more  disturbed  over  it  than 


MARY  PICKFORD   AS   "MADAME  BUTTERFLY" 

"I  believe  November  8  is  the  time  set.  Ii 
will  live  in  my  memory  as  long  as  I  e.xist 
as  one  of  of  the  crucial  moments  of  my 
career. 

"The  most  alarming  thing  about  'Madame 
Butterfly'  was  the  receipt  of  a  number  of 
letters  from  people  who  had  read  that  I 
was  to  play  Cho-Cho-Snn.  They  all  ex- 
pressed great  joy  over  the  news  and  said 
that  they  looked  forward  to  seeing  the  film 
with  keenest  pleasure.  Wouldn't  that  oosi- 
tively  crumple  you  all  up?  It  certainly  did 
reduce  me  to  the  proverbial  pulp. 

"Rut  when  we  went  out  into  New  Jersey 
and  I  saw  the  marvelous  Japanese  gardens 
which  Sid  Olcott  had  found  for  our  set- 
tings, I  was  so  enthusiastic  over  them  that, 
for  the  time,  I  forgot  all  about  my  nervous- 
ness and  entered  into  the  spirit  of  the  thing, 
trying  piy  best  to  understand  the  ceaseless 
chatter  of  the  little  Japs  who  assisted  us  in 
all  the  funny  ceremonials  and  played  minor 
parts  in  the  scenes. 

"If  unremitting  toil  and  painstaking  at- 
tention to  detail  have  their  reward,  the 
picture  should  be  free  from  every  minor  de- 
fect, as  everything  was  done  to  guard 
against  errors  in  customs,  ceremony  and 
costume. 

"It  was  not  until  the  picture  was  com- 
pleted that  I  began  to  worry  over  it  again. 
Everybody  tells  me  that  it  is  ridiculous  for 
me  to  be  aoprehensive  about  the  way  ii  will 
be  received  and  Mr.  Olcott,  who  has  seen 
it  in  its  completed  form,  declares  that  it  is 
the  best  work  that  I  have  ever  done." 


LE  GLERE  FOR  "THE  TURMOIL," 
COLUMBIA-METRO 

George  Le  Guere,  noted  for  his  juvenile 
characterizations  on  both  the  speaking  stage 
and  the  screen,  has  been  engaged  for  the 
role  of  "Bibbs  Sheridan"  in  "The  Turmoil," 
the  five-part  feature  picturized  from  Booth 
Tarkington's  famous  novel  of  the  same 
name,  which  is  now  in  process  of  produc- 
tion at  the  Columbia  Pictures  Corporation 
studio  for  release  on  the  Metro  program. 

Mr.  Le  Guere  was  born  in  New  Orleans 
and  comes  of  an  old  Southern  family  that 
came  to  this  country  from  France  with 
Lafayette  during  the  Revolution.  He  was 
educated  at  Georgetown  University  in 
U'ashington,  D.  C.  .Although  still  a  com- 
paratively young  man,  Mr.  Le  Guere  has 


GEORGE  LE  GUERE 


created  twelve  prominent  parts  in  notable 
Broadway  productions. 

Mr.  Le  Guere  made  his  debut  on  Broad- 
way as  understudy  to  Robert  Edeson  in 
"Strongheart."  Since  then  he  has  sup- 
ported such  well-known  stars  as  David 
Warfield,  Lena  Ashwell,  Lulu  Glaser,  Ger- 
trude Quinlan,  Eleanor  Robson,  William 
Hodge,  Gertrude  Elliott,  Ada  Lewis, 
Blanche  Walsh,  Dorothy  Donnelly,  Edmund 
Breese,  Walker  Whiteside,  Tim  Murphy, 
Jane  Cowle  and  others.  He  made  his  screen 
debut  in  "Bachelor's  Romance"  with  the 
Famous  Players,  and  made  his  first  appear- 
ance under  Metro  auspices  in  "Destiny,  or 
the  Soul  of  a  Woman,"  in  which  Emily 
Stevens  is  starred. 


HAL  FORDE  GOES  TO  JACKSONVILLE 
FOR  GAUMONT 

In  order  to  give  the  American  public 
•'Lessons  in  Love,"  Hal  Forde  left  Friday. 
October  29,  for  the  Gaumont  studios  at 
Jacksonville.  Fla. 

"Lessons  in  Love''  will  be  released  as  a 
multiple-reel  Rialto  Star  Feature.  It  is 
being  directed  by  Richard  Garrick. 


November  13,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


49 


Pathe  Completes  Plans  for  Serial  to  Follow  ^"^Neal" 

Company  Picks  Arrow  Film  Corporation,  with  Studios  at  Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  to  Produce  the  Picture — Emmy  Wehlen,  Who 
Played  the  Title  Role  of  "The  Merry  Widow"  in  England,  Is  Cast  for  Leading  Female  Part — Howard  Esta- 
brook.  Who  Made  a  Hit  in  "Brown  of  Harvard,"  Will  Be  in  Male  Lead 


AFTER  months  of  careful  preparation 
Pathe  announces  the  completion  of 
plans  for  the  series,  "Who  Is  Guilty?" 
which  will  follow  "Neal  of  the  Navy."  The 
first  release  of  the  new  series  will  be  on 
December  11,  the  week  after  the  release 
of  the  last  episodes  of  "Neal  of  the  Navy." 

Emmy  Wehlen,  a  favorite  of  the  legiti- 
mate stage,  and  Howard  Estabrook,  one  of 
Broadway's  younger  stars,  will  play  the 
leads.  The  engagement  of  these  players  is 
an  assurance  that  Pathe  intends  to  make 
this  series  the  most  pretentious  of  all  the 
long  list  identified  with  its  name — a  re- 
markable list  beginning  with  "The  Perils 
of  Pauline"  and  running  down  through 
"The  Exploits  of  Elaine,"  "The  New  Ex- 
ploits of  Elaine,"  "The  Romance  of  Elaine," 
"Who  Pays?"  "Neal  of  the  Navy,"  and  "The 
New  Adventures  of  J.  Rufus  Wallingford." 
The  Arrow  Film  Corporation  will  produce 
"Who  Is  Guilty?"  at  its  studios  in  Yonkers, 
N.  Y.,  and  the  series  will  be  under  the  per- 
sonal direction  of  Howell  Hansel,  the  well 
known  director,  who  is  now  director-in- 
chief  of  the  Arrow  Film  Corporation.  At 
present  the  supporting  cast  includes  Lila 
Chester,  Henry  West,  Mrs.  Balfour,  Stan- 
ley Walpole,  E.  J.  De  Varny,  and  Kather- 
ine  Reichart. 

Emmy  Wehlen  was  strongly  attracted  to 
the  stage  when  a  child  only  six  years  old. 
For  two  years  she  devoted  herself  to  pre- 
paring for  a  career  in  grand  opera.  Learn- 
ing, however,  that  there  is  no  royal  road  to 
success  in  that  line,  and  that  four  more 
years  of  study  were  required,  she  decided 
to  take  up  musical  comedy  and  studied  un- 
der the  best  masters. 

Her  first  parts  were  soubrette  in  musical 
comedy,  but  she  varied  them  with  engage- 
ments in  the  dramas  of  Sudermann  and 
Ibsen.  She  appeared  in  musical  comedy 
in  various  European  countries  but  the  scene 
of  her  greatest  success  was  England,  where 
she  played  the  title  role  in  "The  Merry 
Widow."  Then  came  a  long  engagement  in 
"The  Dollar  Princess."  She  first  appeared 
on  the  American  stage  in  "Marriage  a  la 
Carte,"  an  English  play. 

On  the  expiration  of  her  engagement 
here  she  returned  to  England  to  become 
leading  lady  at  the  famous  Gaiety  theatre. 
She  returned  to  America  with  "The  Girl  on 
the  Film."  She  may  be  said  to  have  been 
almost  a  transatlantic  commuter,  for  she 
went  back  to  England  to  take  the  lead  in 
"After  the  Girl,"  with  which  production  she 
returned  to  the  United  States.  Since  last 
December  she  has  settled  down  in  this 
country. 

Estabrook  and  Miss  Wehlen  Co-Stars 

Howard  Estabrook,  who  is  co-star  with 
Miss  Wehlen  in  the  Pathe  series,  has  en- 
joyed an  almost  meteoric  career  upon  the 
stage.  He  was  born  in  Detroit,  Michigan, 
where  his  father  is  president  of  the  Iron 
and  Wire  Works,  one  of  Detroit's  leading 
industries.  It  is  interesting  to  note  how 
he  came  to  adopt  a  theatrical  career.  His 


uncle  was  county  treasurer  and  young  Es- 
tabrook's  first  position  after  leaving  school 
was  as  assistant  cashier  in  his  uncle's  of- 
fice. 

It  happened  that  a  short  distance  down 
the  street  from  the  county  treasurer's  office 
was  a  theatre  playing  stock.  They  needed 
a  juvenile  and  young  Estabrook  applied  for 
the  job  and  got  it.  For  a  while  he  held 
down  both  positions  at  the  same  time.  Then 
came  his  chance.  The  stock  company  put 
on  "Shenandoah,"  and  he  was  offered  a  good 
part.  He  took  it  and  made  good  with  a 
bang.  The' result  was  that  he  wrote  to  Mr. 
Seymour  of  Charles  Frohman's  interests 
applying  for  a  job,  and  got  it — with  William 
Collier  in  "The  Dictator."  "On  the  Quiet" 
was  his  next  engagement  and  with  it  he 


"The  Vanishing  Bride."  When  "Search 
Me"  was  put  on  this  past  summer  at  the 
Gaiety  he  was  at  the  same  time  playing 
the  lead  in  Edward  Jose's  Gold  Rooster 
Play,  "The  Closing  Net,"  which  picture  has 
only  been  released  a  short  time,  but  has 
made  a  big  hit.  He  is  now  appearing  with 
Elsie  Janis  at  the  George  M.  Cohan  theatre 
in  "Miss  Information." 

Hansel  on  Stage  for  Years 

Howell  Hansel,  who  will  direct  "Who  Is 
Guilty?"  is  one  of  the  best  known  pro- 
ducers in  the  business.  He  was  connected 
with  the  dramatic  stage  ever  since  he  was 
nineteen  years  old  up  to  three  years  ago. 
He  was  born  in  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  and 
made  his  debut  with  Madame  Modjeska  in 


HOWARD  ESTABROOK 


MRS.  WILSON  WOODROW 


EMMY  WEHLEN 


came  back  to  New  York.  "Brown  of  Har- 
vard" saw  his  first  important  part  and  in  it 
he  made  a  big  hit. 

It  resulted  in  his  election  to  the  Lambs' 
Club,  and  in  his  being  tendered  a  number  of 
very  flattering  offers.  Clyde  Fitch  made 
one  of  them  and  got  the  prize  for  which 
they  were  all  angling.  The  medium  in  which 
he  was  placed  was  "The  Straight  Road." 
This  was  followed  by  the  lead  in  "The 
Boys  of  Company  B"  under  Daniel  Froh- 
man's management. 

After  that  engagement  he  married 
Gretchen  Dale,  the  daughter  of  a  San  Fran- 
cisco banker,  and  with  his  bride  toured  Eu- 
rope for  two  years.  On  his  return  he  wrote 
and  produced  "Mrs.  Avery,"  putting  it  on  at 
Weber's  theatre.  As  a  result  he  was  elected 
to  membership  in  the  "Society  of  American 
Composers  and  Dramatists."  Then  followed 
engagements  with  Holbrook  Blinn  in  "The 
Boss,"  and  one  with  Wilton  Lackaye,  in 
both  of  which  he  assisted  in  the  stage  di- 
rection. 

He  was  in  the  original  cast  of  "Within  the 
Law"  and  when  that  play  was  sold  by  Mr. 
Brady  was  withdrawn  and  placed  in  the  part 
of  Laurie  in  "Little  Women." 

Leading  man  with  Grace  George  in  several 
of  her  plays  and  revivals  came  next,  and 
then  the  leading  part  in  "Things  That 
Count,"  which  had  an  all  season  run  at  the 
Playhouse.    David  Relasco  secured  him  for 


"As  You  Like  It,"  at  the  Union  Square 
theatre  in  New  York.  He  was  for  three 
seasons  with  Charles  Frohman,  two  with 
the  Lieblers,  and  has  appeared  with  James 
O'Neill,  Margaret  Mather,  Kyrle  Bellew, 
and  Henrietta  Grossman. 

His  last  engagements  on  the  speaking 
stage  were  with  Blanche  Bates  in  the 
Belasco  production  of  "The  Fighting 
Hope,"  and  with  Mr.  Belasco  in  "The 
Woman."  He  went  into  the  motion  picture 
business  immediately  on  the  conclusion  of 
this  last  engagement,  and  has  been  with 
Thanhouser,  the  World  Film  and  Lubin. 
He  directed  "The  Million  Dollar  Mystery" 
from  start  to  finish. 

As  for  the  stories  of  "Who  Is  Guilty?" 
they  have  been  written  for  newspaper  syn- 
dication by  Mrs.  Wilson  Woodrow,  the 
novelist,  an  account  of  whom  appeared  last 
week  in  these  columns.  They  are  put  into 
scenario  form  by  George  Brackett  Seitz, 
who  has  written  many  Pathe  successes. 
The  series  will  be  in  fourteen  chapters  of 
two  parts  each,  each  chapter  complete  in 
itself.  The  theme  deals  with  various  so- 
cial problems  of  the  day. 

The  question  of  "Who  Is  Guilty?"  for  the 
various  infractions  of  man-made  laws  will 
be  left  to  the  observer  and  the  subject  will 
always  be  handled  in  the  most  truthful 
manner  possible  consistent  with  good 
taste. 


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ILLUMINATING  A  TRIO  OF  LUBIN  NOVEMBER  RELEASES  READY  FOR  THE  PICTURE  THEATRES 


'WHEN  WAS  THEEATENED"  (Two  Heels)— November  4) 


EOSETTA  BEICE  IN  ' 
EIGHTS    OF  MAN' 


'THE 


'THE  SACRED  BRACELET"   (November  1) 


THOMAS   A.   EDISON   SNAPPED  FOR 
SCREEN  AT  'FRISCO 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

San  Francisco,  Oct.  30. 

Thomas  A.  Edison  has  been  in  San  Fran- 
cisco during  the  past  week  inspecting  the 
Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition, 
and  many  special  events  were  arranged  in 
his  honor.  Thursday  was  Edison  Day  at 
the  fair  and  one  of  the  largest  mid-week 
crowds  that  has  assembled  in  many  months 
gathered  to  see  the  famous  inventor. 

Under  the  direction  of  George  Breck, 
head  of  the  local  agency  handling  Edison 
moving  picture  projection  machines,  moving 
pictures  of  the  great  American  were  taken 
on  the  Exposition  grounds  and  elsewhere. 
This  is  the  first  vacation  that  Mr.  Edison 
has  taken  in  many  years  and  he  made  the 
most  of  it  while  here. 


RAVER  ENGAGES  STUDIO  ON  STATEN 
ISLAND 

Harry  R.  Raver,  president  of  the  Raver 
Film  Corporation,  has  secured  the  W. 
Lindsay  Gordon  studio  for  the  forthcom- 
ing August  Thomas-Raver  productions. 

This  studio  is  located  in  Staten  Island 
in  the  heart  of  a  most  picturesque  section 
of  this  picturesque  island,  thoroughly  ac- 
cessible and  properly  equipped  for  produc- 
tions that  demand  the  standard  of  the 
Raver-Thomas  output. 

In  entering  into  the  agreement  for  the 
building,  Mr.  Raver  was  allowed  to  assist 
in  the  installation  of  lights  and  the  selection 
of  scenery  and  settings,  necessary  for  his 
calibre  of  productions. 

"The  Other  Girl"  is  the  first  picture  to 
be  produced  by  this  new  company.  The 
cast  has  been  completed  and  work  is  al- 
ready under  way. 


W.  N.  SELIG  VISITS  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

San  Francisco,  Oct.  30. 
W.  N.  Selig,  of  the  Selig  Polyscope  Com- 
pany, is  making  a  stay  in  San  Francisco 
to  see  the  Exposition  and  to  attend  to  busi- 
ness affairs. 

He  has  been  here  several  times  since  the 
opening  of  the  Exposition,  but  finds  each 
visit  a  new  delight. 


Kane  to  Represent  Manufacturers  and  Exchanges 

He  Believes  That  Specialization  Is  Needed  to  Get  Best  Results  and  Declares  That  in  a  Day 
of  Large  Marketing  Concerns  the  Individual  Is  Still  Important 


WITH  offices  overlooking  Times  Square, 
New  York  City,  Arthur  S.  Kane,  well 
known  in  film  exchange  work,  has  gone  into 
business  for  himself.  He  proposes  to  rep- 
resent manufacturers  and  exchange  and 
theatre  men  over  the  country,  among  whom 
he  counts  scores  as  his  friends.  His  quar- 
ters are  at  901  Candler  Building,  220  West 
Forty-second  street.  New  York  City. 

"With  the  formation  of  the  first  large 
marketing  concern,  we  thought  the  era  of 
the  individual  in  the  film  business  had 
passed,"  said  Mr.  Kane  at  his  new  office. 
"That  was  more  than  five  years  ago,  and 
instead  of  the  individual  being  eliminated,  I 
believe  he  is  coming  more  and  more  into 
his  own.  What  is  required  now  along  mar- 
keting lines  is  specialization. 

"There  are  many  subjects  and  classes  of 
subject  in  the  market  to-day  which  require 
special  treatment,  but  they  do  not  get  it. 
This  is  not  the  fault  of  the  exchange  man- 
ager, because  with  numerous  things  to  look 
after  he  does  not  find  time  to  center  his 
attention  upon  some  special  object.    He  has 


a  great  volume  of  business  along  the  same 
line  which  requires  all  of  his  efforts  to  keep 
it  on  the  move. 

"Consequently,  when  a  concern  releases 
something  which  is  not  in  conformity  with 
the  rest,  it  is  exceedingly  difficult  to  get 
results. 

"That  is  why  some  of  the  organiza- 
tions are  now  refusing  to  take  an>-thing  re- 
quiring special  handling  and  they  are  wise 
in  doing  this." 

Mr.  Kane  has  spent  the  past  few  days 
cnlling  on  friends  in  New  York,  after  an 
absence  of  more  than  four  months  with  his 
family  in  the  Middle  West  and  on  the  Pacific 
Coast.  He  says  if  there  were  one  thing 
needed  to  show  the  tremendous  vogue  of 
the  motion  picture,  the  San  Francisco  Ex- 
position furnishes  the  illustration.  Literally, 
in  the  various  buildings  there  are  motion 
pictures  to  the  right  of  you,  motion  pic- 
tures to  the  left  of  you  and  motion  pictures 
everywhere.  Mr.  Kane  called  the  Panama- 
Pacific  Exposition  the  Motion  Picture  Era 
of  the  World. 


Eastern  Growth  Forces  Larger  Morosco  Quarters 


Company's  Representative  on  Atlantic  Seabo 
Increase  of  Business  to  Take  Out  Twi 

THE  continuous  growth  of  the  business 
at  Oliver  Morosco's  eastern  film  of- 
fices has  for  some  time  demanded  larger 
quarters,  and  in  order  to  facilitate  the  in- 
creased activities,  the  New  York  offices  will 
he  moved  to  a  more  spacious  suite  in  the 
Candler  building. 

.\  floor  space  of  almost  twice  the  size 
of  that  now  occupied  by  the  offices  has 
been  taken  over  by  the  companj',  and  it  is 
expected  that  the  staff  will  be  comfortably 
installed  in  its  new  home  the  early  part 
of  next  week.  There  will  be  three  private 
offices  occupied  by  Carl  H.  Pierce,  who  is 
at  the  head  of  the  eastern  headquarters ; 
Julian  M.  Solomon,  Jr.,  accessory  and  ad- 
vertising manager,  and  Peter  J.  Schmid, 
publicity  representative. 

A  large  space  will  be  allotted  to  the 
stenographic  and  billing  department.  The 


ard,  Carl  H.  Pierce,  Is  Compelled  by  Rapid 
ce  Original  Space  in  Candler  Building 

storeroom  fitted  out  with  librarj'  bureau 
steel  shelving  for  the  accessories  and  spe- 
cial advertising  boosters,  the  mimeograph, 
multigraph  and  addressograph  machines, 
and  cut  cabinets  will  be  in  charge  of  Carl 
Berger. 

A  little  over  a  year  ago  Carl  H.  Pierce, 
with  the  assistance  of  Julian  M.  Solomon, 
Jr.,  represented  the  company  in  the  East, 
occupying  desk  room  at  440  Fourth  ave- 
nue. The  rush  of  business  soon  compelled 
them  to  take  an  office  in  the  Candler  build- 
ing when  Peter  Schmid  joined  them. 

Stenographers  and  other  assistants  were 
steadily  added  to  the  staff,  and  the  space  in 
which  to  work,  together  with  the  store- 
room, soon  became  overcrowded.  A  new 
exhibitor's  aid  department  has  just  been 
installed  under  the  care  of  George  K. 
Henken. 


November  13,  1915 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


51 


Crisp  Autumn  Days  Put  Snap  in  Lubin  Affairs 

Instead  of  Outlook  for  Things  in  "The  Sere  and  Yellow  Leaf,"  Sometimes  Expected  of  the  Season  Anywhere,  Vigor 
and  Vim  Characterize  the  Company's  Fall  Volmne  of  Production — All  Department  Heads  Meet  Weekly 
for  Conference  with  General  Managers  Lowry  and  Singhi 


special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Philadelphia,  Nov.  1. 

THESE  crisp  autumn  days  see  things 
stirring  at  Lubin's.  At  the  big 
studios  on  Twentieth  and  Indiana 
avenues,  in  the  new  studio  (with  club  and 
dressing  rooms)  at  Seventeenth  and  Glen- 
wood  avenues,  and  at  the  large  "ranch" 
out  at  Betzwood,  all  is  vigor  and  vim. 
Not  a  larger  output,  but  a  better  one  is 
the  motto. 

Joe  Farnham  is  now  at  the  helm  of  the 
publicity  department.  He  seems  happy  in 
his  new  job,  and  popularity  has  already 
claimed  him  for  its  own. 

Of  the  recent  staff  of  scenario  writers, 
besides  Dr.  Daniel  Carson  Goodman,  there 
are  Anthony  P.  Kelly,  Mark  Swan,  George 
Spink  and  the  scenario  editor,  Daniel  Ellis. 

Of  the  directors,  the  only  two  veterans, 
as  one  might  call  them,  those  who  have 
been  on  the  Lubin  staff  for  longer  than  a 
few  months  are  George  Terwilliger  and 
Joseph  Kaufman.  The  more  recent  acqui- 
sitions, already  mentioned,  are  Jack  Pratt, 
Tom  McKim,  Edgar  Lewis  and  Clay  M. 
Greene. 

Carl  Metcalfe  has  also  risen  to  directorial 
dignity,  and  this  completes  the  "we  are 
seven"  ranks. 

Gone  from  the  Lubin  forces  are  Ormi 
Hawley,  Mary  Charleson,  Romaine  Field- 
ing, Mae  Hotely,  Arthur  Hotaling,  Charles 
Brandt,  Edith  Ritchie  and  some  lesser 
lights. 

Standbys  of  Lubin  Screen 

Some  of  the  old  standbys  still  seen  on 
the  Lubin  screen  are  Ethel  Clayton,  Rosetta 
Brice,  Octavia  Handworth,  Francis  Joyner, 
George  Clarke,  Peter  Lan,  James  Daly, 
Clara  Lambert,  Billie  Reeves,  Florence 
Williams  and  Kempton  Greene. 

The  very  newest  luminaries,  more  or  less 
known  to  fame,  are  House  Peters,  Nance 
O'Neil,  Carrie  Reynolds,  Mary  Moore. 
Mimi  Yvonne,  Warner  Richman,  Hayden 
Stephenson,  Richard  Buhler,  D.  L.  Don 
and  Craufurd,  Kent. 

Raymond  Hitchcock  has  come  back  for 
"The  Wonderful  Wager,"  which  will  see 
the  light  of  day  in  January.  The  actor  is 
having  the  time  of  his  life  at  Betzwood, 
capering  around  with  a  whole  circus,  help- 
ing suffrage  by  making  speeches  to  the 
"girls"  campaigning  for  the  cause,  helping 
to  burn  down  a  "whole  street"  in  his  play, 
and  doing  various  and  sundry  other  stunts. 

Edgar  Lewis  is  returning  with  his  Great 
Divide  Company.  After  ten  days'  further 
work  on  this  play  around  the  studio,  it  will 
be  completed. 

Ethel  Clayton  will  return  to  her  usual 
place  as  star  of  the  Kaufman  Company, 
while  Lewis  will  direct  Nance  O'Neil  in  a 
play  not  yet  decided  on.  Jack  Pratt's  com- 
pany has  returned  from  Block  Island. 
Rosetta  Brice  and  Richard  Buhler  are 
Pratt's  leads.  Octavia  Handworth,  Mimi 
Yvonne  and  Carrie  Reynolds  are  part  of 
the  Terwilliger  forces. 


Kaufman  has  Inez  Birch  of  "Misleading 
Lady"  fame,  Francis  Joyner,  Craufurd 
Kent  and  June  Daye.  The  latter  is  well 
known  as  Vinnie  Burns  of  the  Lubin  west- 
erners. She  expects  to  remain  in  the  Phil- 
adelphia studios  for  the  present,  and  has 
decided  to  change  her  former  congnomen 
for  the  more  euphonious  "June  Daye." 

The  next  big  Lubin  drama  to  appear  will 
be  "The  Nation's  Peril,"  on  November  22. 
This  was  jointly  written  by  George  Ter- 
williger and  Harry  Chanle. 

On  December  comes  "Man's  Making," 
both  written  and  produced  by  Jack  Pratt, 
with  Richard  Buhler  and  Rosetta  Brice  as 
leads.  In  January,  Nance  O'Neil  will  ap- 
pear in  "The  Streets  of  Silence,"  an  orig- 
inal work  by  Anthony  Kelly. 

While  production  goes  merrily  on,  execu- 
tive meetings  are  being  held  weekly,  at 
which  General  Manager  Lowry  and  Singhi 
hold  conclaves  with  heads  of  all  depart- 
ments, including  publicity,  scenario  staff 
and  directors.  At  these  meetings  questions 
relating  to  efficiency  and  betterment  are 
thoroughly  aired.  With  business  in  full 
swing,  philanthrophy  flourishes  neverthe- 
less. 

The  Lubin  Beneficial  Association  en- 
deavors to  pay  sick  benefits  to  all  its  mem- 
bers, as  well  as  helping  with  funeral  ex- 


penses. On  Monday,  November  1,  occurred 
the  first  Halloween  entertainment  and 
dance  of  the  association.  This  took  place 
at  Lulu  Temple. 

Amongst  the  well  known  people  who  par- 
ticipated in  the  program  were:  Raymond 
Hitchcock  in  comic  songs ;  Billy  Reeves,  in 
his  "Substitute"  act  from  "The  Follies"; 
Richard  Buhler,  in  a  sketch;  Jack  Pratt,  in 
songs ;  Walter  Law  and  James  Cassidy,  in 
"The  Seal  of  Silence" ;  Potter  and  Hart- 
well,  in  a  comedy  act ;  Carrie  Reynolds,  a 
well  known  vaudevile  star,  in  song;  George 
Spink,  in  a  piano  act ;  seven  cabaret  sing- 
ers; Wally  and  Lottie  Kelston,  in  a  comedy 
song  and  dance. 

Bartley  McCullum  was  stage  manager,  and 
Kempton  Greene  floor  manager,  for  the 
dance  afterward.  Only  one  dollar  was 
charged  for  tickets.  The  committee  in 
charge  were  :  Walter  Law,  Kempton  Greene, 
Wally  .Kelston,  Bart  McCullum,  Joe  Kee- 
gan,  Donald  Scott,  Gus  Anderton,  Charles 
Hyatt. 

The  present  officers  of  the  Lubin  Bene- 
ficial Association  are :  Peter  Lang,  presi- 
dent ;  Charles  Hyatt,  vice-president ;  Isa- 
dore  Schwartz,  treasiarer,  and  Donald 
Scott  and  Joseph  Keegan,  secretaries. 

A  substantial  sum  is  expected  as  the  re- 
sult of  the  affair. 


Eight  Stage  Stars  in  6  Equitables  in  Six  Months 

Harriet  Ford,  Author  of  "The  Argyle  Case,"  "The  Dummy,"  and  Other  Legitimate  Successes 
Will  Write  Scenarios  for  Triumph,  Producing  Ally  of  the  Company 


WITH  the  Equitable  program  now  prac- 
tically outlined  for  the  forthcoming 
half  year,  Equitable's  chief  producing  ally, 
the  Triumph  Film  Corporation,  of  which 
Arthur  H.  Jacobs  is  the  executive  head  and 
Joseph  Golden,  director-in-chief,  announces, 
as  its  activities  of  the  next  six  months,  six 
releases,  in  which  eight  stars  of  the  legiti- 
mate stage  will  make  their  appearance. 

Triumph's  past  releases  on  the  Equitable 
program  included  Hilda  Spong  in  "Di- 
vorced," Lenore  Ulrich  in  "The  Better 
Woman,"  Julius  Steger  in  "The  Master  of 
the  House,"  and  Helen  Ware  in  "The 
Price,"  all  of  which  were  supervised  by 
Director  Golden  himself. 

Through  General  Manager  Jacobs  ar- 
rangements were  entered  into  last  week 
whereby  Harriet  Ford,  author  of  "The 
Argyle  Case,"  "The  Dummy"  and  other  big 
legitimate  successes,  will  in  the  future  de- 
vote her  time  to  constructing  scenarios  ex- 
clusively for  Triumph.  Miss  Ford  is  con- 
sidred  one  of  the  most  prolific  and  ver- 
satile of  dramatic  writers  of  the  day,  and 
at  present  has  contracts  for  four  different 
legitimate  productions  for  Broadway,  ap- 
pearing during  the  forthcoming  season. 

Henry  Kolker,  who  is  now  working  in 
"The  Warning"  under  the  directorial  aus- 
pices of  Edmund  Lawrence,  has  been  en- 
gaged for  three  additional  productions, 
which  will  characterize  the  Equitable  re- 
leasing chart  at  periods  of  from  three  to 


four  months  apart.  Mr.  Lawrence  will  be- 
gin work  immediately  upon  the  production 
of  "The  Ransom,"  in  which  the  estimable 
Julia  Dean  will  be  seen  in  a  stellar  role 
of  strength. 

Miss  Dean  recently  began  rehearsing  for 
her  latest  starring  vehicle,  which  opens  at 
a  Broadway  house  soon,  and  it  will  be  nec- 
essary for  her  to  divide  her  time  between 
studio  and  stage,  but  as  Equitable  will  not 
release  the  Dean  picture  until  early  in 
January,  ample  time  is  allowed  for  her 
legitimate  work. 

Marie  Empress,  last  seen  in  "When  We 
Were  Twenty-One,"  in  which  she  portrayed 
the  role  of  the  vampire  woman,  will  be 
featured  by  Triumph  in  a  sensational  dra- 
matic offering,  based  on  one  of  Guy  De 
Maupassant's  stories,  which  is  now  in  the 
working. 

Miss  Empress  will  begin  work  about 
November  14  upon  the  completion  of  a 
large  wardrobe.  The  De  Maupassant  script 
calls  for  elaborate  apparel. 

Charles  J.  Ross,  now  playing  in  "The 
Senator,"  William  H.  Crane's  former  ve- 
hicle, is  at  work  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
under  the  direction  of  Joseph  H.  Golden. 
"The  Senator"  will  be  seen  on  the  Equitable 
program  about  December  20. 

The  Triumph  scenario  department  is 
now  in  complete  charge  of  Eva  Unsell, 
formerly  with  Famous  Players,  Harriet 
Ford,  Mr.  Golden  and  Arthur  Jacobs. 


52 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


Film  Currents  Crackle  in  Rothapfel  Live  Wire  Talk 

New  Yorker,  in  Countrywide  Tour  Under  Auspices  of  Mutual,  Meets  in  New  Orleans  Hun- 
dred Screen  Men,  Who,  Note  Books  in  Hand,  Take  Down  Electrifying  Management  Hints 


Sfecial  to  Motion  Picture  News 

New  Orleans,  La.,  Nov.  1. 

SAMUEL  L.  ROTHAPFEL  of  New 
York  came  to  New  Orleans ;  he  saw, 
and  he  conquered,  at  the  most  represen- 
tative gathering  of  film  men  that  the 
South  has  ever  witnessed. 

Because  Atlanta  was  eliminated  from 
his  itinerary,  Mr.  Rothapfel  came  direct 
from  Washington,  arriving  in  New  Or- 
leans Sunday  night,  October  24.  He 
stayed  in  the  city  almost  two  whole  days. 
Every  minute  of  his  time  was  occupied 
by  local  exhibitors.  The  newspapers 
accorded  Mr.  Rothapfel  generous  space, 
advertised  the  fact  that  he  would  hold 
an  open  levee  for  all  exhibitors.  The 
result  was  that  the  carpet  in  his  luxuri- 
ous quarters  at  the  Hotel  Grunewald 
was  worn  by  the  constant  tramping  of 
many  feet.  To  say  that  New  Orleans 
was  delighted  with  Mr.  Rothapfel  is  but 
putting  it  mildly. 

The  banquet  of  RIonday  midnight  drew 
exhibitors  from  all  over  the  Southern 
territory  as  far  as  Dallas.  Ross  Harden- 
brook,  New  Orleans  manager  of  the 
Mutual  Film  Corporation,  under  whose 
auspices  the  Rothapfel-Mutual  tour  is 
being  conducted,  had  sent  out  several 
hundred  invitations.  There  were  almost 
a  hundred  covers  set  in  the  Grunewald, 
quite  filling  the  big  Gold  Room  of  that 
hotel. 

To  reproduce  all  the  good  things  Mr. 
Rothapfel  said  is  virtually  impossible  in 
limited  space.  Even  a  third  of  his  talk, 
if  subdivided,  would  fill  MoxKiN  Picture 
News  with  "live  wire"  stories  for  many 
moons  to  come.  His  every  word  was 
absorbed  by  the  exhibitors,  many  of 
whom  took  copious  notes  of  his  talk. 

Al.  G.  Shear,  New  Orleans  manager  of 
the  Consolidated  Film  and  Supply  Com- 
pany, was  toastmaster.  At  the  banquet 
were  besides  Mr.  Rothapfel,  Silas  Bent, 
Ross  Hardenbrook,  New  Orleans  man- 
ager Mutual:  Maurice  F.  Barr,  manager 
World  Film;  Al.  G.  Shear,  New  Orleans 
manager  of  Consolidated;  J.  T.  Ezell  and 
B.  King,  manager  and  assistant  manager. 
Genera!  Film.  Company;  Al  Durning, 
manager  Greater  New  York  Film  Rental 
Company;  Meyer  Simmonds,  Peerless 
Film  Company;  Karl  A.  Bugbee,  man- 
ager Metro;  C.  J.  Briant,  Metro;  E.  C. 
Kirkpatrick,  manager  Paramount;  Sid  S. 
Levy,  General  Film  Company:  Arthur  B. 
White,  manager  Orpheum  Theatre. 

Out  of  town  guests  were:  Samuel  E. 
Cohn,  Typhoon  Fan  Company,  New 
York;  H.  M.  Hardie,  Crystal  Theatre, 
Dallas,  Texas;  P.  L.  Bible.  Old  Mill 
Theatre,  Dallas;  Sol  M.  Sugarman, 
Meridian,  Miss.;  E.  V.  Richards,  Jr., 
manager  Saenger  Amusement  Company, 
Shreveport,  La.;  William  F.  Rosenbaum, 
representing  the  National  Board  of  Cen- 
sorship; R.  B.  Wiley,  manager  Strand 
Amusement  Company.  Montgomery, 
Ala. 

Local  exhibitors  were:  J.  Eugene 
Pearce,   Herman   Fichtenberg.   and  his 


four  aides,  Billy  Gueringer,  G.  J.  Dureau. 
Jr.,  Carl  Goldenburg  and  J.  H.  Mulligan  ; 
F.  R.  Heiderich,  Jr.;  Mrs.  Edward  H. 
Waldsdorf,  G.  B.  Mars,  Nathan  Sobel, 
P.  O.  Blankenship,  Louis  Dolhonde,  Au- 
gust Waldsdorf,  W.  G.  Tebault,  Jr.,  P. 
Fabacher,  J.  J.  Fabacher,  W.  J.  Currie, 
J.  E.  Clark,  Frank  Nicolosi,  L.  H.  Yar- 
rat,  C.  j\.  Gibson,  Bert  Kiern,  V. 
O'Shie,  I^.  Recknagle,  W.  G.  Wiley,  C. 
S.  Gainnie  and  Joseph  Alsina. 

The  press:  Carlton  F.  Pool,  the  New 
Orleans  Times-Picayune ;  John  L.  Ebaugh, 
advertising  manager.  New  Orleans  Times- 
Picayune;  M.  R.  Kattmann,  press  repre- 
sentative, Orpheum  Theatre ;  O.  S.  Samuel, 
Variety;  Phil  J.  Reilly,  Mose  Stern,  .Jules 
Benedic,  Motion  Picture  News. 

A.  Jules  Benedic. 


ST.  LOUIS  EXHIBITORS'  LEAGUE 
ELECTS  OFFICERS 

On  October  22  the  semi-annual  election 
uf  officers  was  held  at  the  regular  meeting 
of  the  Theatre  Managers  and  Motion  Pic- 
ture Exhibitors'  Association  of  St  Louis. 
Practically  all  the  present  incumbents  were 
re-elected,  the  one  new  officer  being  J.  W. 
Price,  of  the  Manchester  theatre,  who  is 
the  new  treasurer  of  the  league. 

Edward  Pohlman,  of  the  Mutascope  the- 
atre on  Olive  street,  is  again  president. 
Fred  Wehrenberg,  of  the  Best  theatre,  on 
Jefferson  and  Cherokee,  is  vice-president. 
E.  L.  Root,  of  the  Eagle  theatre,  1700  S. 
Broadway,  is  secretary,  and  Miss  Tillie 
Schwartz,  of  the  Famous  theatre,  615 
Franklin  avenue,  financial  secretary.  Miss 
Schwartz  is  beginning  her  third  term  as 
financial  secretary. 

The  league  members  are  fighting  the  pro- 
posed censorship  bill  in  St.  Louis  with  all 
their  might. 


Two  More  Stanley  Releases  from  Horsley  for  Mutual 

Next  One  in  Series  Will  Show  What  Might  Have  Happened  to  Explorer  in  "Starvation 
Camp"  While  on  Quest  for  Missionary  Livingston  in  Africa 

kAVID  HORSLEY  has  decided  to  con- 


D 


Africa"  series,  picturizing  the  famous  ex- 
plorers trip  into  darkest  Africa,  now  being 
carried  on  in  David  Horsley's  Centaur 
Features,  for  two  more  releases. 

The  forthcoming  release,  "Stanley  in 
Starvation  Camp,"  which  will  be  distributed 
through  the  Mutual  branches,  November 
11,  is  the  fourth  part  of  the  series.  It  is  in 
two  reels  and  tells  the  story  of  Stanley's 
trials  and  privations  while  on  his  quest  in 
the  jungles. 

Set  in  the  South  African  jungles,  where 
animal  life  predominates,  there  is  ample 
opportunity   for  bringing  into  the  stories 


the  talents  of  the  Bostock  animals.  This  is 
a  feature  Mr.  Horsley  and  his  director  have 
not  overlooked,  and  with  the  well-known 
performing  ability  of  the  Bostock  group  at 
their  command  it  is  no  wonder  that  many 
big  animal  scenes  have  been  obtained. 

The  "Stanley"  series  is  being  directed  by 
Frank  Montgomery,  who  has  in  his  com- 
pany of  players  Roy  W  atson,  Ed.  Roberts, 
Court  Tietze,  Charles  Gay,  A.  Van  Ant- 
werp, Charles  Weelock,  Princess  Mona 
Darkfeather,  Marie  Manley,  Anna  DeLyle, 
and  Captain  Jack  Bonavita  and  the  Bostock 
animals.  All  of  the  Stanley  subjects  are 
released  every  other  week  on  the  Mutual 
program. 


American  Film  Adds  New  Glass  Studio  to  Plant  in 
Santa  Barbara,  Totaling  25,000  Square  Feet 


NEW  STAGE  AT  THE  AMERICAN  STmiOS,  SANTA  BARBARA,  GAL. 


INCREASED  demand  for  the  Flying  A. 
1  Beauty,  Clipper  Star  Features  and  Mus- 
tang photoplays  put  out  on  the  new  Mutual 
program  has  resulted  in  impressive  addi- 
tions to  the  already  extensive  plant  of  the 
American  Film  Company  at  Santa  Barbara. 
California. 

Within  a  few  days,  work  will  be  com- 
pleted on  a  new  glass  studio  and  related 
structures  covering  a  total  of  25,000  square 
feet,  giving  the  American  company  an  ag- 


gregate of  four  acres  of  studio  space  on 
their  plant  which  has  recently  been  enlarged 
to  cover  a  plot  of  ten  acres. 

The  new  glass  studio  covers  an  area  of 
80  by  130  feet  and  is  22  feet  in  the  clear 
inside.  Adjoining  the  studio  is  a  new  scen- 
ery dock,  workshops,  property  store  rooms 
and  transformer  rooms.  President  S.  S. 
Hutchinson  of  the  American  company  now 
claims  the  "world's  greatest  motion  pic- 
ture plant." 


November  13,  1915.  MOTIONPICTURENEWS  53 

INTERESTING  MOMENTS  IN  "ALICE  OF  HUDSON  BAY,"  A  NOVEMBER  RELEASE  FROM  THE  AMERICAN  STUDIOS 


ED.  COXEN  AND  WINIFRED  GREENWOOD  ARE  STARRED  IN  THIS  MUITIPLE  REEL  PRODUCTION  OF  LIFE  IN  THE  FAR  NORTH 


METRO  BOOSTERS  CLUB  TO  GIVE 
DINNER  NOVEMBER  4 

The  Metro  Boosters'  Club  will  give  its 
first  dinner  at  Kenn's  Forty-fourth  street 
shop  house  on  Thursday  evening,  Novem- 
ber 4. 

This  organization  has  been  formed 
within  the  Metro  Pictures  Corporation  and 
its  allied  companies,  and  at  the  first  dinner 
there  will  be  present  President  Richard  A. 
Rowland;  Joseph  W.  Engel,  treasurer;  B. 
A.  Rolfe  and  Max  Karger,  manager  of  the 
Rolfe  Photo  Plays,  Inc. ;  all  the  directors 
who  are  making  the  Metro  pictures,  and 
these  include  John  W.  Noble,  Edwin 
Carewe,  Charles  Horan,  Edgar  Jones, 
William  Nigh  and  Herbert  Blache,  together 
with  the  local  managers,  members  of  the 
publicity  staff  and  the  directors  of  the  cor- 
poration and  others  of  the  Metro  family. 

The  dinners  will  be  informal,  and  will 
be  followed  by  a  picture  showing  each 
week,  with  a  general  Metro  discussion  for 
mutual  helpfulness.  Once  each  month  the 
representatives  of  the  trade  press  and 
other  important  members  of  the  motion 
picture  industry  will  be  invited  as  guests 
of  the  club. 

Joseph  W.  Engel  will  be  master  of  cere- 
monies at  the  first  dinner,  and  Paul  Henkel 
has  arranged  a  special  menu  of  Metro 
dishes. 


LASKY   "CARMEN"  IN   THIRD  WEEK 
AT  SAN  FRANCISCO 

special  to  Motiok  Picture  News 

San  Francisco,  Oct.  30. 
The  Lasky  production  of  "Carmen," 
w-ith  Geraldine  Farrar,  has  proved  to  be 
such  an  attraction  at  the  Imperial  theatre 
that  Manager  J.  L.  Partington  has  re- 
tained it  for  the  third  week,  and  it  is 
anticipated  that  fully  one  hundred  thou- 
sand persons  will  have  seen  it  by  the 
time  tlie  engagement  is  brought  to  a 
close. 

Besides  this  great  feature,  the  usual 
Paramount  travel  pictures  and  other 
scenic  subjects  are  on  the  bill,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  splendid  operatic  selections 
rendered  by  artists  from  the  Lambardi 
Opera  Company. 

It  has  been  a  long  time  since  a  mov- 
ing picture  was  shown  in  San  Francisco 
that  has  attracted  such  brilliant  audiences 
as  has  "Carmen." 


Universal  to  Move  to  Fort  Lee,  N.  J.,  from  Bayonne 

Many  Employees  Will  Go  with  Their  Families,  as  Company  Offers  an  Increase  of  Salary 
as  an  Inducement  for  Them  Not  to  Resign 


THE  Universal  Film,  which  is  packing 
up  and  preparing  to  leave  Bayonne 
for  Fort  Lee,  N.  J.,  is  also  busy  making 
plans  for  the  comfort  of  its  many  employees 
who  will  move  out  of  Bayonne  with  the 
company.  Plans  are  under  way  for  a  bus 
service  that  will  carry  the  Universal  em- 
ployees who  will  reside  in  Bayonne  after 
the  company  moves,  to  and  from  work  and 
while  the  plan  has  not  been  adopted,  it  will 
probably  go  through  very  shortly. 

Many  families  with  members  employed 
by  the  Universal  are  preparing  to  move  to 
Fort  Lee  and  many  more  of  the  employees 
have  already  secured  stopping  places  at  the 
town  where  thc\'  will  be  working  in  the 
future. 

The  concern  decided  to  raise  the  pay  of 
all  employees  who  went  along  with  them 
and  that  inducement  has  made  many 
change  their  minds  about  resigning.  As 


has  been  the  practice  the  Universal  Com- 
pany will  continue  to  look  out  for  the  wel- 
fare of  their  faithful  employees. 

Much  of  the  work  that  heretofore  came 
to  the  Universal  by  Arrangement  of  the 
latter  company  now  goes  to  the  Centaur 
Film  Company,  which  plant  is  directly  op- 
posite the  Universal  establishment  at  Forty- 
fifth  street  and  Avenue  E. 

This  arrangement  will  mean  the  hiring 
of  experienced  hands  by  the  Centaur  and 
probably  a  great  number  of  the  Universal 
employees  will  find  places  there. 

Superintendent  Murphy,  who  took  John 
Nickolaus'  place  in  the  local  factory,  has 
been  delegated  to  look  after  things  in 
Fort  Lee  and  his  selection  meets  with  the. 
hearty  approval  of  all  concerned.  Mr. 
Nickolaus  has  gone  to  Universal  City. 

Mr.  Murphy  is  well  liked  and  is  well  up 
in  his  particular  line  of  business. 


Col.  Selig  Is  Made  Member  of  Chicago  School  Board 


Mayor  Confers  the  Honor  Upon  President  of 
Magnate  Was  Away,  Visiting  His  Studios 

MAYOR  WILLIAM  HALE  THOMP- 
SON, of  Chicago,  on  Monday  eve- 
ning, October  25,  nominated  six  new 
members  of  the  board  of  education  of  Chi- 
cago. The  Chicago  board  of  education  is 
among  the  most  powerful  and  important 
educative  boards  in  the  United  States.  In- 
cluded among  the  nominees  was  William 
N.  Selig,  president  of  the  Selig  Polyscope 
Company. 

Mr.  Selig  is  at  present  visiting  his  mo- 
tion picture  studios  in  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
and  Las  Vegas.  N.  M.,  and  was  not  ap- 
prised of  the  fact  that  he  had  been  nomi- 
nated as  a  member  of"  the  Chicago  board. 

In  commenting  upon  his  nominations. 
Mayor  Thompson  said :  "I  think  my  ap- 
pointees are  the  best  group  of  individuals 
ever  sugs;ested  for  membership  on  the 
board.  There  were  many  names  suggested 
to  me  and  the  choice  was  a  difficult  one." 

Mayor  Thompson  classifies  Mr.  Selig  as 
a  self-made  man  and  one  qualified  in  every 
way  for  membership  on  the  Chicago  school 
board.  Mr.  Selig  is  known  as  one  of  Chi- 
cago's most  influential  business  men  and  is 


Polyscope  Company  While  Motion  Picture 
in  Los  Angeles  and  Las  Vegas,  N.  M. 

probably  one  of  the  most  widely  read  men 
of  the  present  day. 

His  personal  friendship  with  literary  men 
and  women  of  high  standing  is  also  very 

extensive. 

Mr.  Selig's  nomination  for  membership 
on  the  Chicago  board  of  education  is  not 
only  a  tribute  to  Mr.  Selig  as  a  man,  but 
is  also  a  tribute  to  higher  art  in  motion 
pictures. 


FOUR  TELEPHONE  PRESIDENTS  PAY 
INCEVILLE  A  VISIT 

Inceville,  Cal.,  was  honored  last  week 
by  the  presence  of  four  telephone  presi- 
dents, whose. combined  income  reaches  into 
the  millions :  U.  N.  Bethel,  president  of 
the  New  York  Telephone  Company  and 
senior  vice-president  of  the  American  Tele- 
phone &  Telegraph  Company;  C.  E.  Yost, 
president  of  the  Northwestern  group  of  the 
Bell  system ;  B.  E.  Sunny,  president  of  the 
Chicago  Telephone  Company,  and  George 
E.  McFarland,  president  of  the  Pacific 
Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company. 


54 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


BLANCHE  SWEET  WILL  CONTINUE  IN 
LASKY  PRODUCTIONS 

Reports  having  reached  the  Lasky 
Feature  Play  Company  that  certain  mo- 
tion picture  manufacturers,  believing  that 
Blanche  Swe,et's  contract  to  appear  ex- 
clusively in  Lasky  productions  on  the 
Paramount  program  had  expired,  or  was 
about  to  expire,  had  made  overtures  of 
employment  to  her.  Messrs.  Wise  and 
Lichtenstein,  attorneys  for  the  Lasky 
company,  this  week  made  known  gen- 
erally that  Miss  Sweet  will  continue  for 


"Evolution,  Not  Revolution,"  in  Picture  Industry 

President  Rowland  of  Metro,  Unimpressed  with  Predictions  of  Over-Night  Changes,  Fore- 
sees Continued  Progress  Toward  Better  Subjects,  Regardless  of  Length 


BLANCHE  SWEET 

a  considerable  period  under  the  Lasky 
direction. 

The  determination  to  make  a  public 
announcement  of  the  contractural  rela- 
tions between  the  producing  firm  and 
the  star  was  decided  only  after  a  circular 
letter  had  been  sent  to  various  manu- 
facturers calling  their  attention  to  the 
existing  contract  between  the  Lasky 
company  and  Miss  Sweet.  Many  of  the 
companies  responded  to  the  letter  of 
warning  and  expressed  pleasure  that  the 
Lasky  firm  had  seen  fit  to  stop  senseless 
reports  of  Miss  Sweet's  sudden  termina- 
tion of  her  Lasky  contract. 

When  Miss  Sweet  was  engaged  by  the 
Lasky  company  last  autumn  she  already 
had  won  the  right  to  stardom  on  the 
screen.  Since  then  her  career  has  been 
a  series  of  successful  productions,  the 
latest  being  "The  Secret  Sin,"  "The  Case 
of  Becky,"  "The  Secret  Orchard,"  "Stolen 
Goods,"  "The  Clue,"  and  others. 


TOO  MANY  PICTURE  THEATRES  IN 
CHATTANOOGA 

There  are  still  five  nickel  houses  in  Chat- 
tanooga showing  the  usual  five-cent  type 
of  pictures,  and  Charlie  Chaplin  still  draws 
crowds. 

No  money  is  being  made  by  the  Chatta- 
nooga exhibitors,  as  the  town  has  too  many 
houses. 

The  prices  paid  for  features  in  Chatta- 
nooga by  the  exhibitors  are  a  joke,  and  all 
branch  managers  have  stood  cuts  on  their 
services. 

One  of  the  larger  film  company's  fea- 
tures are  being  shown  three  days  each,  with 
two  changes  weekly,  for  $75. 


PRESIDENT  RICHARD  A.  ROW- 
LAND of  the  Metro  Pictures  Cor- 
poration is  optimistic  over  the  motion 
picture  situation,  but  in  an  interview  this 
week  he  pointed  out  some  of  its  present 
difficulties.    Mr.  Rowland  said: 

"Motion  pictures  have  grown  far 
enough  away  from  the  swaddling  clothes 
period  to  assure  the  exhibitor  and  the 
public  of  one  big  definite  fact.  There 
will  be  no  revolution  in  the  making  of 
moving  pictures,  either  long  or  short, 
and  the  nature,  character  and  quality  of 
the  business  is  not  scheduled  for  any 
over-night  changes.  There  will  be  a  con- 
tinued growth  toward  better,  finer  pic- 
tures, but  the  progress  will  be  evolu- 
tionary rather  than  revolutionary. 

"I  am  moved  to  call  the  attention  of 
motion  picture  men  to  these  facts  be- 
cause there  seems  to  be  an  impression 
in  some  quarters  that  motion  pictures 
are  going  to  be  transformed  by  the 
magic  wand  of  printer's  ink  and  great 
capital  so  that  masterpieces  will  spring 
up  from  the  ground  or  blossom  out  on 
the  trees. 

"Speaking  for  Metro  and  for  Metro 
only,  I  may  be  permitted  to  say,  that  we 
are  aiming  at  and  striving  for  and  con- 
centrating on  a  consistent  feature  serv- 
ice. Our  manufacturers  are  more 
anxious  to  make  good  than  to  make 
money,  and  making  good  pictures  of 
course  means  profit  to  the  producer  and 
to  the  exhibitor. 

"With  no  desire  to  indulge  in  person- 
alities or  register  complaints  against  any 
one  in  the  great  motion  picture  industry, 
I  cannot  refrain  from  giving  a  word  of 
warning  against  what  I  believe  is  the 
most  serious  menace  to  the  entire  busi- 
ness. 


I  refer  to  overcapitalization  and  frenzied 
finance.  .ig 

"Those  acquainted  with  the  conditions 
surrounding  the  actual  manufacture  of 
motion  pictures  know  that  a  successful 
business  makes  a  swollen  capitalization 
unnecessary,  and  they  know  also  that 
of  the  huge  sums  raised  only  a  modest 
percentage  goes  into  the  actual  cost  of 
picture  making.  The  big  balances  go 
to  the  promoters  or  into  the  enormous 
wastage  that  has  marked  the  recent 
progress  of  the  business. 

"As  in  all  businesses  somebody  has 
got  to  pay  for  all  this.  The  interest  on 
all  these  great  capitalizations  must  be 
met,  to  say  nothing  of  the  dividends  that 
have  to  be  provided  for  if  the  business 
is  to  be  continued  at  a  profit.  I  believe 
sincerely  that  the  skyrocket  financiers 
constitute  the  most  serious  problem  the 
industry  has  to  consider,  because  as  a 
whole  the  motion  picture  business  is 
now  on  firm  ground  and  proceeding 
satisfactorily  along  substantial  lines. 

"There  is  no  cause  whatever  for  alarm 
among  exhibitors.  The  exhibitors  gen- 
erally are  wise  enough  to  know  that  a 
fairly  consistent  service  is  as  good  >as 
anybody  can  expect,  and  that  with  a 
fairly  consistent  service  they  can  suc- 
cesfully  continue  in  business  on  a  good 
profit  basis. 

"I  am  firmly  of  the  opinion  that  Metro 
pictures  are  their  own  best  proof  of  ex- 
cellence and  I  had  rather  have  an  ex- 
hibitor see  the  pictures  than  to  tell  him 
about  them. 

"Reference  is  being  frequently  made 
to  the  high  quality  of  Metro  advertising, 
but  my  invariable  answer  is  that  our 
advertising  must  be  of  the  highest  class 
to  live  up  to  the  pictures  themselves." 


Its  Serial  Heroine  Signs  with  Pathe  for  Another  Year 


Before  Appearing,  However,  in  a  New  Series,  Under  the  Direction  of  Ramirez-Torres,  Pearl 
White  Will  Star  in  "Hazel  Kirke,"  Made  by  the  Whartons 

playing  wtih  some  of  the  best  and  some  of 
the  worst  companies  in  existence,  as  she 


PEARL  WHITE,  famous  as  the  heroine 
of  the  Pathe  serials,  "The  Perils  of 
Pauline"  and  the  "Elaine"  trio,  has  just 
signed  a  contract  for  another  year  with 
Pathe.  She  will  first  star  in  the  famous 
theatrical  success,  "Hazel  Kirke,"  which 
will  be  put  into  pictures  by  the  Whartons, 
and  then  will  probably  be  featured  in  a 
new  serial,  which  will  be  under  the  per- 
sonal management  of  M.  Ramirez-Torres, 
assistant  managing  director  of  Pathe. 

Miss  White  has  for  several  years  been 
one  of  the  three  or  four  of  the  best  known 
stars  in  the  business,  practically  all  of 
which  time  she  has  been  identified  with 
Pathe  pictures. 

She  was  born  in  Missouri,  and  broke 
into  things  theatrical  by  the  "Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin"  route,  that  great  nursery  of  his- 
trionic talent.  For  several  years  she  was 
connected  with  various  road  shows,  and 
then  obtained  an  engagement  with  a 
circus.  For  two  or  three  years  she  worked 
under  "the  big  top,"  and  then  went  back 
to  the  stage,  where  she  has  been  ever  since, 


expresses  it. 

Some  three  years  ago  she  received  an 
oflter  from  Pathe  to  appear  in  pictures, 
and  with  Pathe  she  has  been  ever  since, 
with  the  exception  of  short  intervals. 

Miss  White  possesses  a  marked  individ- 
uality upon  the  screen — she  resembles  no 
other  player  before  the  public.  Her  popu- 
larity is  tremendous  as  is  amply  evidenced 
by  the  bewildering  amount  of  her  daily 
correspondence,  which  comes  from  all  parts 
of  the  civilized  world.  For  nerve  and 
willingness  to  take  chances  while  working 
before  the  camera  she  easily  stands  among 
the  leading  women  in  pictures. 


NEILAN  TO  WORK  AT  SELIG  COAST 
STUDIOS 

Marshal  Neilan,  director  and  star,  has 
returned  to  the  Selig  Polyscope  Company 
after  being  called  to  New  York  City.  He 
will  work  at  the  Selig  studios  in  Los 
Angeles. 


November  13,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


55 


WITH  THE  PAEAMOUNT  TEAVEL  PICTUEES  CAMEEMEK  EN  EOUTE  TO  THE  HEADWATERS  OF  THE  AMAZON;  SURHOXmDED  BY  INQUISIIIVE  NA- 
TIVES IN  MARTINIQUE;  AND  COASTING  THROUGH  THE  ANDES  OF  PERU 


DOROTHY  DAVENPORT  IN  LEADING 
ROLES  FOR  LASKY 

Member  of  a  family  that  has  been 
prominent  in  the  American  theatre  for 
many  years,  Dorothy  Davenport  has  been 
engaged  as  a  regular  member  of  the 
Lasky  Feature  Play  Company,  and  is 
busy  at  work  on  two  elaborate  produc- 
tions in  which  she  has  leading  roles  at 
the  studios  in  Hollywood,  Cal. 

Miss  Davenport  made  her  first  appear- 
ance in  Paramount  theatres  in  the  Lasky 
production  of  Lou-Tellegen  in  "The  Ex- 
plorer."   She  will  be  the  heroine  in  the 


DOROTHY  DAVENPORT 

picturization  of  "Mr.  Grex  of  Monte 
Carlo,"  supporting  Theodore  Roberts  and 
Carlyle  Blackwell. 

Miss  Davenport  is  a  daughter  of  the 
noted  comedian,  Harry  Davenport,  and 
the  celebrated  actress,  Alice  Davenport. 
She  is  a  niece  of  the  late  Fanny  Daven- 
port, for  many  years  the  reigning  favorite 
of  the  Broadway  stage. 

Her  career  on  the  legitimate  stage  was 
brief.  After  a  few  seasons  as  a  child 
in  vaudeville,  she  joined  the  Biograph 
Company  at  sixteen,  and  has  appeared 
at  different  times  with  the  Reliance, 
Nestor,  Selig,  Ince  and  Universal.  With 
the  latter  organization  she  played  lead- 
ing roles  with  Wallace  Reid,  a  screen 
romance  that  ended  in  their  marriage. 

Her  first  motion  picture  was  in  sup- 
port of  Henrj'  B.  Walthall  in  "Life's 
Cycle." 


South  America  a  New  Land  for  Paramount  Films 

Travel  Pictures,  Giving  the  Geography  Ideas  of  Childhood's  Happy  Hours  a  Heavy  Jolt, 
Show  Our  Neighbors  Below  the  Equator  in  an  Entirely  Different  Light 

the     people     of     this  country. 


THE  series  of  travel  pictures  being 
shown  weekly  by  the  Paramount  Pic- 
tures Corporation  are  proving  tremend- 
ously popular,  due  probably  to  the  fact 
that  the  trade  searchlight  is  at  this  time 
focused  on  the  great  continent  of  Oppor- 
tunity. 

Thousands  of  these  men  are  learning  for 
the  first  time  that  the  republics  of  South 
America  are  something  more  than  just 
merely  a  nondescript  continent  to  the 
South.  In  the  minds  of  many,  South 
America  is  just  considered  some  kind  of 
a  jungle,  inhabited  by  monkeys,  parrots, 
snakes  and  swarthy-faced,  blanket-covered, 
slouch-hatted  Indians;  and  productive  of 
rubber,  coffee  and  a  few  other  things,  re- 
membered from  grammar  school  days. 

People  are  now  learning  that  in  South 
America  there  is  a  beautiful,  prosperous 
city,  larger  than  Philadelphia.  That  one 
of  its  mountains  is  the  highest  elevation  in 
the  Western  hemisphere.  That  the  Iquassu 
Falls  are  higher  and  wider  than  Niagara. 

How  many  people  in  the  United  States 
today  know  that  the  police  force  of  Buenos 
Aires  is  nearly  twice  as  large  as  that  of 
New  York? 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  in  Argentine  there 
are  from  800,000  to  900,000  people,  with  all 
the    hopes    and   possibilities  of  the  best 


among 

Concerning  Brazil,  where  school  geogra- 
phies are  apt  to  state  flatly  that  93  per  cent, 
of  Brazil  lies  in  the  tropics,  they  say  noth- 
ing about  the  7  per  cent,  a  territory  almost 
half  as  large  as  the  United  States,  which 
has  a  most  magnificently  tempered  climate. 
In  a  matter  of  natural  resources  it  is  one 
of  the  rarest  countries  in  ihe  world. 

The  people  who  have  be<n  following  the 
Pafamount  Travel  Pictixes  have  also 
learned  in  a  recent  release  that  Chili  is 
one  of  the  most  progressive  South  Amer- 
ican countries,  having  wai  ':s  innumerable 
and  the  money  to  pay  for  hem,  and  that 
the  United  States  Steel  Corporation  is 
about  to  invest  some  $10,000,000  in  iron 
properties  there. 

Paramount  Travel  Pictures  show  that 
Chili  is  the  most  important  contributor  to 
the  nitrate  market.  The  United  States  is 
furnishing  the  chief  market  for  product, 
and  in  return  will  sell  Chili  most  of  its 
necessities. 

Mentioning  these  three  countries  does 
not  mean  that  the  other  republics  of  South 
America  are  less  important.  In  fact,  in 
natural  resources,  many  of  them  are  shown 
by  Paramount  Travel  Pictures  to  be  richer 
in  agricultural  and  manufacturing  re- 
sources than  some  of  the  large  ones. 


Sales  Manual  with  Vitagraph  Features  for  V-L-S-E 

Folder  Gives  Complete  Description  of  Subject,  with  Reproduction  of  All  Advertising  and 
Publicity  Matter  for  Use  of  Elxhibitor  in  Exploiting  a  Play 


WHAT  is  a  most  complete,  as  well  as 
helpful — from  the  standpoint  of  the 
exhibitor — piece  of  business  literature,  is 
now  being  issued  by  John  W.  Grey,  assist- 
ant to  A.  E.  Smith,  of  the  Vitagraph  Com- 
pany, with  every  Blue  Ribbon  feature  re- 
leased through  the  V-L-S-E. 

This  is  a  folder  9  x  12,  giving  the  com- 
plete description  of  the  production,  to- 
gether with  a  reproduction  of  all  the 
advertising  and  publicity  matter  available 
for  the  exhibitor's  use  in  exploiting  the 
play. 

The  pocket  of  this  folder,  printed  in  four 
colors  on  the  outside  and  inside  pages, 
shows  the  half,  one,  three,  six  and  twenty- 
four  sheets  in  full  colors  together  with  a 
synopsis  of  the  high-lights  of  the  story. 

Enclosed  in  this  is  a  press  sheet  three 
columns  wide  of  regular  newspaper  mea- 
sure, and  of  such  size  as  to  make  it  easy 


to  clip,  containing  the  story  of  the  feature, 
human  interest  incidents  in  connection  with 
its  filming,  personality  sketches  of  the 
leading  players  and  extraneous  press  ma- 
terial. This  matter  is  so  indexed  that  the 
busy  exhibitor  or  editor  can  turn  to  the 
type  of  story  he  wishes  instantly,  without 
poring  through  a  mass  of  information. 

The  second  insert  consists  of  reproduc- 
tions of  the  electrotypes  prepared  by  the 
advertising  department  of  the  Vitagraph 
Company  for  the  exhibitor's  use  in  the 
newspapers. 

With  this  sales  manual  before  him,  the 
exhibitor  has  every  available  scrap  of  in- 
formation he  can  possibly  need  to  know 
about  a  feature  for  intelligent  considera- 
tion, effective  advertising,  and  correct  stag- 
ing. The  Vitagraph  Company  will  issue 
these  manuals  for  each  of  their  V-L-S-E 
features. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


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EDITOR'S  NOTE. — It  is  the  desire  of  "Motion  Picture  News"  to  include  under  this  heading  novel  advertising  ideas,  successful  schemes 
in  the  management,  decoration  and  equipment  of  the  theatre — everylhuig,  in  fact,  done  by  the  exhibitor  to  stimulate  his  trade. 
We  invite  every  exhibitor  to  write  us  about  any  new  enterprise  he  has;  also  to  come  to  us  for  advice  or  information 
along  any  line.    Address:    Editor,  "Motion  Picture  News,"  220  West  Forty-second  Street,  New  York  City 


ANOTHER  NEWSPAPER  THAT  IS  DOING  ITS  DUTY  BY 
THE  EXHIBITORS  OF  ITS  CITY 


AGAIN  we  call  the  attention  of  exhibit- 
ors to  a  striking  example  of  a  news- 
paper that  is  doing  its  duty  by  the  motion 
picture. 

Exhibitors  who  live  in  the  city  where  this 
newspaper  is  published  are  our  witnesses 
for  the  correctness  of  that  statement.  Their 
testimony  appears  in  the  form  of  generous 
advertising  in  the  paper. 

The  newspaper  in  question  is  The  Omaha 
World-Herald,  whose  photoplay  editor  is 
Ross  H.  Chamberlen.  A  short  time  ago 
The  World-Herald  had  no  photoplay  de- 
partment. Now,  it  thinks  in  terms  of 
whole  pages  with  regard  to  pictures. 

The  issue  of  October  17,  which  we  wish 
to  discuss  particularly,  devoted  not  one, 
but  two  pages  to  its  motion  picture  depart- 
ment. When  we  say  department,  we  mean 
department,  not  a  mere  jumble  of  miscel- 
laneous matter  built  around  a  few  adver- 
tisements. The  World-Herald's  depart- 
ment is  intelligently  edited,  presenting  a 
variety  of  news  and  comment  touching 
nearly  every  angle  of  the  motion  picture  in- 
dustry in  which  the  reader  is  conceivably 
interested. 

1  here  is  a  great  difference  between  a 
real  motion  picture  department  in  a  news- 
paper, and  one  that  pretends  to  be,  but 
isn't.  The  latter  species  consists,  for  the 
most  part,  of  just  enough  press  stuff  to 
"carry"  the  theatre  ads.  The  World-Herald 
does  not  belong  to  that  species. 


The  ads  are  there — yes  ;  the  jjress  stuff  if 
there — yes.  But  the  whole  thing  is  done 
with  the  eye  for  news,  always  news.  The 
editor  is  not  satisfied  merely  with  what  the 
press  agents  hand  in,  though  that  material 
is  valuable — invaluable,  if  it  is  written  from 
the  news  angle.  But  he  also  makes  his  de- 
partment as  useful  as  possible  to  World- 
Herald  readers  by  giving  them  what  they 
want,  and  in  the  shape  they  want  it.  To  be 
specific,  he  gave  them,  in  the  October  17 
issue : 

A  human  interest  story  about  the  late 
John  Bunny,  written  from  an  actual  con- 
versation between  the  editor  and  the  la- 
mented actor. 

A  query  box. 

A  guide  to  the  week's  pictures  at  prom- 
inent theatres. 

Short  press  notices  of  important  produc- 
tions at  all  houses. 

Longer  stories  about  big  features. 

Five  illustrations  of  players  and  scenes. 

A  story  about  the  building  of  a  local 
theatre. 

Other  articles  giving  glimpses  of  players 
"behind  the  scenes." 

Typographically,  The  World-Herald's  de- 
partment could  be  improved.  The  cuts  are 
not  as  clear  as  they  might  be,  and  the  de- 
partment head,  while  it  has  a  good  idea 
back  of  it,  is  technically  a  little  crude. 

These  are  minor  defects  that  can  gradu- 
ally be  overcome.    The  department  as  a 


whole  is  excellent.  Exhibitors  should 
know  about  it,  and  let  their  newspapers 
know  about  it. 

When  a  newspaper  devotes  two  pages  of 
a  single  issue  to  a  genuine  motion  picture 
department  it  deserves  praise — and  publicity 
— for  doing  so. 

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I  NEW  MOTION  PICTURE  | 

I  DEPARTMENTS  | 

1       The  St.  Louis  Globe-Democrat  has  1 

1  in  the  last  few  months  added  many  i 

I  pages  of  photoplay  matter  to  its  col-  i 

1  umns.   The  Sunday  magazine  section  I 

i  has  a  special  photoplay  page  of  which  § 

I  A.  H.  Gicbler  is  editor,  liiat  is  devoted  i 

i  to  the  interests  of  motion  picture  en-  i 

i  thusiasts,  and  usually  a  story  of  one  of  1 

I  the  photoplay  serials  is  run  on  another  i 

i  page.    During  the  week  several  col-  | 

i  umns  of  items  about  pholoplayers  are  i 

i  printed,  and  regular  reviews  of  the  f 

i  big  features  showing  around  town  are  | 

i  given  room  twice  a  week  and  on  Sun-  | 

1  days.  1 

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WASHINGTON  FANS  TO  SEE  SCREEN 
STARS  IN  THE  FLESH 

Tom  Moore  makes  a  departure  in  an- 
nouncing that  prominent  picture  players 
will  appear  in  person  at  the  Garden  the- 
atre, Washington,  D.  C.,  periodically. 
The  first  of  these  was  Earl  Williams, 
who  will  be  followed  by  Julia  Dean, 
Francis  X.  Bushman,  Anita  Stewart. 
Bryant  Washburn,  J.  Warren  Kerrigan. 
Edith  Storey  and  others. 


Edited  by  BOSa  H.  CHAKBERLEN. 


HESAWPICTURESAS 
PUBLIC  SCHOOi  PART 

Lftte  John  Buboy-  oft  Vint  Lost 
Fall.  Qav%  Out*  V«r7  Id- 
tere^uif  Isteyrfcw. 

OeclarM  roaslbiUtiei  of  Clean 
Seraan  ProdunM/»T;t  Were 
vof  Qif&atin  Nature 


"Wbea  tbe  book  trust  cMses  to  con- 
trol lb*  little  red  school  houtie  on  th< 
hUl.  tti«n  tb*  rnvtloa  picture,  ad  «4- 
jcatloD&L  &M>*Mlt7.  will  tlep  In  And 
4o  more  to  QtorMt  cblldrea  ta  tf«U- 
ffiudiM  tiMA  lurwiAa  poiBibtr 

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acrren  cotnedlftjo.'  wb»  4i*d  r»««iat1|r 
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THE  ADVANCE  AGENT. 


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Punrtuped  Bomince,"  IQ  "Tlllle's  To- 
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;-l«el  faatiinr  hrr^l  miy  lot-  lauKh- 
log  purpoMS,  bilt  po  tuoixy  th^'poople 
laugh  until   t*ar9  roll    (lown  their 

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nph.  Sin,"  Ml«l  Bar*  la  wtthoul 
jubl  the  jTMteat  porirayer  of 


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ad  tbeie  will  be  part  ol  tba  Strand 
rKertalnmeDt  pT«tT  Ttiasday,  ^^dnea- 
ftj  and  Tbor*«ay  Wm  dow  on. 
rrldar  and  9*tui^»*  "-^0100  Rar- 
aa«  LAla  " 


Tbe  Faraam, 

The  Campbelli  Ato  Comliig''  li 
tUli-  of  a  ratlier  pr^lentloiia 
(talurlng  »ancl't  rord  I 


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t  csccpllunall)-  bard  i 
tbem  capably.   The  e 


Orptn-nni,  Jionth  Omaba. 

Harold  i^nood  and  Maj;  AUlaoa, 
talented  SouDg  stars  In  tlic  slknt 
drama,  arc  featured  in  "The  House  of 
Scandals."  to  be  the  Orpheum's  lea- 
tUT''  ilcmre  Tucsdajy  Ttiln  is  a  Mu- 
tual picture  In  four  aclB.  and  waS 
produced  by  ilie  American  I-llni  Co. 
Thi-  slory  ot  "Tlie  House  of  Scajidala" 
IntercBtlng 


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BALBOA  PLAe  HAS 
MCiKINGHOBBy 


LUli»n  M.  West.  Who  i»  Mrs 
Edwin  J.  Brady  in  the  Eitcheo. 
It  Some  Cook,  Too. 


A  BESSE  OFFERma. 


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win J.  Brady,  who  plays  villain  parts 
Mhs  West's  cooking  has  Improved 
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ers  contend  be  Is  If^da&svr  of  becom- 
log  good  natured  enough  lo  be  a  Icau- 


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ILLUSTRATING  THE  MAKE-UP  OF  THE  OMAHA  WORLD-HERALD'S  PHOTOPLAY  DEPARTMENT 


THE 
FARNAm 


Today 


A        F*ar-  4et  Kwjway  FMCarK 


November  13,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


57 


HOUSE  ORGAN  SERIES  NO.  6:  EFFECTIVE  USE  OF  THE  NEWSPAPER  AS  A  MODEL  FOR  THEATRE  PUBLICITY 

»  K  A  N  K  L I N  NEWS 


Franklin  News 


rwiklin  TTiFatre.  Oakland  CsUfomia.  Ocfob«r  10.  1913 


$1,000,000  WILL  BE  PAID 
BY  PUBUC  OF  U.  S.  TO  SEE 
CHAPLLN  IN  "SHANGHAIED"  I 


Inn  LaugiL 


The  Spender' is  |  MAUDE  ADAMS'  GREATEST 
a  Forcey  Play!      SUCCESS,  "THE  LITTLE 

MINISTER,"  FILMED  BY  FOX 


Famous  Playlo  be  Shown 
21  "The  Litile  Gypsy  ' 

Cntt4       tLait  AJmm 


Critics  Praise  Patfae 
Film,  "Hie  Spender" 


i  I  BniJd  Big  Dam  for 


Seme  u  'Little  Gypsy- 1  j  California's  Largest  Pawnbrokers 
California  Loan  Office 


H.  &  D.  M.  Bronstein 


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D™:  '  Di    EM    J      '  'Master  of  the  House 
-1^  4"  '^'^     I    A  Commg  Produrtio  J 
as  TIk  little  Gn»r'     , ,  , 


WESTERN  NOTION  &  NOVELTV 


The  Franklin  News,  recently  started  at  Oakland,  California,  ty  Rex  Midgley,  of  the  Franklin  theatre,  is  a  four  page  publication  in  the  form  of  a  newspaper 
devoted  entirely  to  attractions  coming  to  the  Franklin  and  to  motion  pictare  news  in  general.  Five  thousand  are  distributed  each  week.  Advertisers  are  findinj  the 
paper  a  profitable  medium  and  it  is  becoming  self-supporting.  The  cut  reproduces  part  of  two  pa?es  of  the  issue  of  Oct.  10.  Ncte  the  newspaper  make  up, 
with  its  well  written  heads  and  good  display  of  cuts.  Also  the  review  quoted  from  Motion  Picture  News.  Outside  advertising  is  not  permitted  to  "bury"  the 
theatre's  own  publicity. 


TWO  MICHIGAN  EXHIBITORS,  WITH  SMALL  CAPITAL 
BUT  LARGE  ABILITY,  ACHIEVE  SUCCESS 


How  two  men,  starting  five  years  ago 
with  $40  as  capital,  have,  by  the  use  of 
brains,  made  genuine  successes  as  exhibi- 
tors in  the  small  town  of  Brooklyn,  Mich., 
is  told  in  a  letter  received  by  Motion  Pic- 
ture News  from  C.  B.  Estes,  one  of  the 
exhibitors  in  question.  With  his  brother, 
C.  H.  Estes,  he  operates  the  Square  Town 
Electric  Theatre. 

Listen  to  their  story.  It  contains  several 
first  class  "live  wire"  suggestions — first  class 
because  they  have  been  tried,  and  have 
worked : 

"Motion  Picture  News, 

"New  York  City,  N.  Y. 
■'Gentlemen : 

"We  started  in  the  picture  business  al- 
most five  years  ago,  here  in  this  little  town 
of  600  inhabitants..  Our  capital  at  that  im- 
portant stage  of  our  existence  consisted  of 
the  magnificent  sum  of  $40.  With  this 
$40  we  bought  a  second-hand  two-pin  Edi- 
son machine,  borrowed  chairs  from  the  de- 
funct People's  Church,  got  a  book  of  the 
Michigan  insurance  laws,  built  a  booth  un- 
der its  specifications  and  went  to  work. 
We  subscribed  for  several  trade  journals, 
studied  everything  we  could  get  our  hands 
on  that  had  any  bearing  on  the  picture  busi- 
ness and  kept  our  eyes  and  ears  open  to 
everything  that  was  going  on  about  us. 

"Today  we  own  a  neat  little  theatre 
equipped  with  a  Powers  Six  machine,  seated 
with  150  Hardesy  upholstered  folding  chairs, 
an  $800  piano  with  electric  Teleckra  attach- 
ment which  is  played  by  cable  with  rolls 
inserted  at  the  ticket  office  and  operated  by 
the  writer  who  is  a  musician.  We  have  our 
own  lighting  plant  consisting  of  a  three 
K.  W.  generator  and  six-horse  power  special 
electric  oil  engine,  both  Fairbanks,  Morse 
make.  We  have  a  battery  of  four  electric 
fans  and  plenty  of  ventilators.  Our  chairs 
are  arranged  in  rows  of  ten  chairs  each, 
divided  by  one  main  isle  which  is  48  inches 
wide. 

"Besides  our  regular  newspaper  advertis- 
ing we  use  1,  3  and  6  sheet  posters,  window 
cards,  heralds,  dodgers,  banners,  slides,  etc.. 
and  have  what  we  call  a  regular  automobile 
mailing  list. 

"We  have  two  distinct  sets  of  shows  a 
week,  one  for  the  town  people  and  another 


for  the  country  people.  We  have  learned 
by  paying  attention  to  what  we  hear  about 
us  that  the  same  class  of  shows  will  not  do 
for  both  classes  of  people.  And  another 
thing — we  have  always  encouraged  our 
patrons  to  talk  freely  to  us  of  their  impres- 
sions of  different  subjects;  by  so  doing  we 
have  been  through  a  regular  school  of  in- 
struction and  have  profited  greatly  thereby. 
We  are  extremely  particular  about  our  pro- 
jection and  our  pictures  are  run  as  they 
should  be,  at  a  speed  of  about  eighteen  min- 
utes to  the  reel.  The  pride  our  townspeople 
take  in  bringing  their  city  visitors  to  our 
theatre  and  the  wonder  these  visitors  ex- 

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I  MILWAKEE  LEADER  JOINS  | 
I     RANKS  OF  LIVE  NEWSPAPERS  | 

I  Thanks  to  the  extended  campaign  1 

I  of  "Motion  Picture  News"  for  photo-  | 

I  play  sections  in  the  daily  papers,  Mil-  | 

I  waukee  at  last  has  a  daily  that  de-  f 

1  votes  a  certain  part  of  its  news  rol-  | 

I  nmns  each  day  to  the  photoplay.  The  | 

I  Milwaukee  Leader  is  the  paper,  and  | 

I  according  to  Walter  Wyrick.  who  in-  | 

I  augurated  and  is  in  charge  of  the  | 

I  column,  it  was  through  the  sugges-  1 

I  tions  made  in  "Motion  Picture  News"  | 

I  that  he  first  realized  the  value  of  such  i 

I  a  column.  | 

I  Under  his  direction  the  column  has  | 

I  become  very  popular  despite  the  fact  | 

I  that  it  has  only  been  running  for  a  | 

I  few  days.    Profiting  upon  the  advice  | 

I  of  the  "News,"  the  Leader  made  no  i 

I  attempt  to  get  any  advertisers  until  | 

I  the    column   had   been   running   for  i 

I  some  days.    The  result  was  that  the  1 

I  theatres  saw  just  what  they  were  get-  § 

i  ting  and  rapidly  came  in  line.  | 

i  Just  at  present  the  space  is  very  | 

I  limited,  but  as  the  theatre  advertisers  f 

I  increase  their  space  it  is  expected  that  | 

I  the  space  devoted  to  photoplays  will  1 

I  be  increased.  i 

I  Mr.    Wyrick    says    he    reads    the  | 

I  "News"  almost  exclusively  as  he  finds  | 

I  that  he  can  secure  more  real  stories  | 

I  in  its  pages  than  in  any  other  me-  | 

I  dium,  not  excepting  the  clip  sheets.  | 

I  It  is  expected  the  column  will  soon  | 

I  grow  to  a  solid  page  on  Saturdays  | 

i  and  at  least  a  column  daily.  1 

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press  at  finding,  in  many  cases,  a  better 
show  in  such  a  small  town  than  they  can  see 
at  home,  is  compensation  enough  for  our 
untiring  labors.  Our  bills  are  paid  prompt- 
ly, in  fact  immediately,  therefore  we  enjoy 
the  best  of  credit  everywhere,  which  is  a 
poor  man's  best  protection. 
"Beside  our  own  electric  plant,  which  ive 

pillllinilllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllU^^ 

I  THE  WEEK'S  BEST  LIVE  WIRE  | 
I  STUNT  I 

f  When  a  railroad  puts  on  special  ex-  | 

I  cursion  rates,  solely  to  enable  people  | 

i  along  its  line  to  see  a  motion  picture,  i 

i  the  last  word  in  the  history  of  photo-  1 

I  play   popularity   would   seem   to   be  | 

1  written.  | 

1  That  is  what  happened  the  other  day  1 

i  in  Pennsylvania.  The  Susquehanna  &  I 

I  New  York  R.  R.  ran  excursions  from  | 

I  nearby  towns  to  Towanda,  Pa.,  Oct.  | 

i  18,  where  the  Keystone  Op?ra  House,  | 

i  under  the  management  of  William  L.  | 

I  Woodin,  was  showing  "The  Heart  of  | 

i  Jennifer."  Many  of  the  scenes  in  this  i 

I  picture  were  made  in  Central  Pennsyl-  i 

I  vania  lumber  camps  and  along  Schra-  | 

I  der  Creek.  i 

1  Manager  Woodin  deserves  praise  for  m 

i  his  enterprise  in  arranging  this  un-  i 

i  usual  "live  wire"  stunt.  No  wonder  he  i 

I  is  turning  away  business.  | 

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only  use  for  matinees  and  special  occasions, 
we  use  the  village  power,  110  volt  I.  C. 
Both  plants  are  available  at  a  moment's 
notice  through  a  system  of  double  switches, 
so  we  are  doubly  protected  against  acci- 
dent to  either  plant.  Through  our  care  in 
building  our  booth  under  the  insurance 
laws,  we  had  no  trouble  in  passing  the 
state  fire  inspection.  The  state  fire  mar- 
shal told  us  we  had  a  very  fine  booth.  Un- 
der the  new  state  laws  it  would  be  impos- 
sible to  make  a  start  like  we  did  five  years 
ago  and  the  really  poor  man,  no  matter 
what  his  ability  may  be,  must  stay  on  the 
outside  and  look  on  with  hungry  heart. 

"The  best  is  none  too  good  for  our  peo- 
ple and  as  far  as  in  our  power  lies  they 
are  going  to  get  it.  Thanking  you  for  the 
never  ceasing  help  you  give  us  in  the  News. 
we  are 

"Yours  truly, 
"EsTE.s  &  Estes,  by  C.  B.  Estes, 
"Members  State  Branch  No.  4,  M.  P  E. 
L.  of  A." 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    No.  19. 


PoDular  Sfar*  of  such 
Successes  as  — "All  of  a  Sudden  Peqqy/" 
"Nance  OldHeld'l^Sweei  Kitty  Bellairs" 
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AMONG  THE  EXCHANGES 


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FOX  OFFICES  IN  MONTREAL  JO  BE  HEADQUARTERS 
FOR  CHAIN  OF  CANADIAN  EXCHANGES 


THE  opening  of  a  handsome  suite  of 
ofifices  in  Montreal,  at  322  St.  Cath- 
erine street  West,  by  the  Fox  Film  Cor- 
poration, is  a  step  that  has  set  the  Cana- 
dian trade  agog  with  interest. 

Since  William  Fox  has  announced  his 
decision  to  open  a  chain  of  distributing 
offices  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
Dominion  of  Canada  and  his  main  office 
in  Montreal,  the  interest  of  filmdom  has 
been  keenest.  Numerous  inquiries  have 
already  been  made  from  various  points 
in  the  Province  of  Quebec  concerning 
their  service. 

Winfield  R.  Sheehan,  general  manager 
of  the  Fox  Film  Corporation,  has  given 
in  Montreal,  where  he  has  been  for  a 
few  days,  an  example  of  his  executive 
ability  in  cleaning  up  the  situation  for 
the  organization.  In  company  with  Mr. 
Sheehan  were  Carey  Wilson,  the  Cor- 
poration contract  manager;  N.  H.  Spitzer 
and  Jerome  Abrams,  special  representa- 
tives from  New  York,  the  last  mentioned 
having  been  laying  the  lines  for  his 
superiors  to  take  up. 

Chandos  St.  John-Brenon,  a  brother  of 
Herbert  Brenon,  the  Fox  producer,  now 
in  Jamaica  staging  the  million  dollar 
Kellermann  picture,  has  been  installed  as 
manager  of  the  head  offices. 

The  offices  have  the  best  location  in 
Montreal,  situated  as  they  are  in  the 
very  heart  of  the  retail  district,  facing 
Montreal's  largest  department  store,  next 
door  to  the  main  post  office,  and  occupy 
the  largest  floor  space  of  any  motion 
picture  exchange  in  Canada.  The  two 
floors  are  90x30  feet. 

The  first  floor  is  devoted  solely  to 
manager's  ofifice,  general  office,  cashier's 
office,  shipper's  office,  shipping  depart- 
ment, publicity  department,  rewind  room 
and  film  vaults ;  here  also  will  be  kept 
the  more  perishable  of  the  high  art  stock 
supplied  by  Mr.  Fox  to  all  of  his  ex- 
changes. The  upper  floor,  same  size,  is 
devoted  solely  to  an  exhibition  room 
where  is  now  being  installed  a  Powers 
6B  Machine  and  many  innovations  in 
the  way  of  artistic  decorations  and  com- 
forts to  the  patrons  of  the  Corporation. 
To  the  rear  and  entirely  separate,  is  a 
large  store  room. 

A  rumor  has  gained  currency  to  the 
effect  that  it  was  Mr.  Fox's  intention  to 
build  a  studio  in  the  environs  of  Montreal 
and  that  by  next  summer  Fox  Produc- 
tions, from  start  to  finish,  would  be 
made  in  Montreal.  Questioned  in  this 
regard,  Mr.  Sheehan  had  nothing  to  say, 
neither  denying  nor  confirming  such 
rumor. 

The  Dominion  head  offices  are  finished 


in  mahogany  partitioning  and  are  the 
latest  and  most  convenient  arrangements 
for  a  large  and  central  film  exchange  of 
an  up-to-date  kind. 

Special  invitations  will  be  issued  to 
exhibitors,  city  officials,  prominent  citi- 
zens, theatre  managers,  etc.,  for  the  of- 
ficial opening  of  the  offices,  at  which  will 
be  given  a  musicale  soiree  and  a  "run- 
off" of  several  of  the  best  features  of  the 
Fox  Corporation. 


SCHWERIIS,  FOX  REPRESENTATIVE, 
VISITS  HOME  TOWN 

C.  F.  Schwerin,  special  representative 
of  the  Fox  Film  Corporation,  was  in 
Chattanooga  recently.  Chattanooga  was 
Mr.  Schwerin's  home  town  and  he  oper- 
ated the  second  moving  picture  theatre 
there.  He  also  operated  and  was  the 
organizer  of  the  Princess  Skating  Rink 
and  was  instrumental  in  forming  Chatta- 
nooga's famous  spring  festivals. 

He  left  for  Memphis,  Nashville  and 
Washington  and  then  to  New  York, 
where  he  has  been  living  for  nine  years. 


CRESCENT  CITY  EXCHANGEMEN  HELPING  ALONG  "GO- 
TO-THE  NEWSPAPER"  MOVEMENT 


THE  past  week  saw  several  shifts  and 
new  men  in  the  ranks  of  the  con- 
stantly-growing exchange  field  at  New 
Orleans.  The  exchanges  apparently  are 
enjoying  good  business  and  giving  keen 
competition.  The  motion  picture  situa- 
tion is  daily  growing  better,  as  exchange 
men  in  New  Orleans,  while  unfortunately 
not  co-operating  through  means  of  or- 
ganization, still  are  extending  helpful  in- 
dividual boosts  in  following  Motion  Pic- 
ture News'  "go-to-the-newspaper"  move- 
ment. 

Daily  an  announcement  of  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  V-L-S-E  agency  is  expected. 
There  have  been  several  rumors  in  this 
respect,  but  nothing  definite.  Another 
interesting  announcement  expected  short- 
ly is  the  New  Orleans  opening  of  the 
Triangle  program.  The  public  has  heard 
of  the  Triangle  combination  through 
newspapers  and  trade  papers;  and  the 
program  undoubtedly  will  receive  tre- 
mendous support  for  the  reason  that  the 
people  are  talking  about  it. 

Sam  Norvell,  of  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  has 
been  added  te  the  sales  force  of  the 
World  Film  Corporation,  and  will  come 
under  the  jurisdiction  of  Maurice  F. 
Barr.  Again  is  Mr.  Norvell  a  member 
of  the  World  family,  he  having  been  em- 
ployed out  of  the  Chicago  office  at  the 
beginning  of  the  year.  F.  R.  Gilbert, 
of  Dallas.  Texas,  also  is  a  new  repre- 
sentative for  Mr.  Barr.  He  succeeds 
U.  C.  Jones. 

With  Al  Dnrning  as  manager  of  the 
Greater  New  York  Rental  Company,  Al- 
bert Pirolle.  formerly  bookkeeper  for  the 
former  office,  becomes  assistant  manager 
of  t'^e  United  Proffram  Film  Service,  a 
position  formerly  held  by  Mr.  Durning. 

A  new  wrinkle  for  the  assistance  of 
salesmen  traveling:  out  of  the  New  Or- 
leans office  has  be^n  devised  by  Joseph 
Kl^in.  Southern  Di-^-ision  manager  of 
World  Film.  Mr.  Klein  gives  his  sales- 
men press  sheets  covering  the  World  and 


Equitable  productions;  and,  when  a  fran- 
chise is  closed  in  a  country  town,  the 
salesman  hands  these  sheets,  localized,  to 
the  exhibitor  for  distribution  to  the  news- 
papers. 

Announcement  is  made  by  the  New 
Orleans  office  of  Kleine-Edison  that  a 
new  Kleine-Edison  office  is  to  open 
shortly  in  Detroit,  Mich.,  to  serve  Michi- 
gan and  parts  of  Illinois  and  Indiana. 
It  is  noted  in  this  connection  that  a  sim- 
ilar announcement  made  by  Kleine-Edi- 
son's  New  Orleans  office,  to  the  effect 
that  a  new  exchange  would  open  in  Cin- 
cinnati, was  carried  by  Motiox  Picture 
News  a  week  or  so  ahead  of  official  an- 
nouncement or  any  other  trade  paper. 


MUTUAL'S  SIOUX  FALLS  BUILDING 
COLLAPSES 

The  Sioux  Falls.  S.  D.,  branch  of  the 
Mutual,  a  three-story  building,  collapsed 
last  week,  causing  $10,000  damage.  It  was 
on  West  Ninth  street,  near  the  heart  of 
the  business  district.  Excavation  for  a 
new  building  adjoining  caused  the  col- 
lapse. The  manager,  who  was  in  the 
building,  heard  the  walls  cracking  and 
made  a  hurried  dash  for  his  life. 

Manager  Taylor  of  the  Omaha  exchange 
has  been  there  ever  since,  getting  affairs 
straightened  out.  A  new  building  has  been 
secured.  All  accounts  during  that  time 
were  handled  from  the  Omaha  office. 


UNIVERSAL  EXCHANGE,  OMAHA,  HAS 
AUTOMOBILE  SERVICE 

The  Universal  exchange  at  Omaha.  Neb., 
has  substituted  automobiles  for  its  horse 
service  between  the  exchange  and  the  ex- 
press trains.  The  more  rapid  service 
makes  Manager  Van  Husan  wonder  why 
he  didn't  make  the  change  a  long  time 
ago,  he  says. 

Growing  business  made  the  change  nec- 
essary. 


November  13,  1915. 


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61 


CENSORS'  ACTIVITIES  CHIEF  TOPIC  IN  PHILADELPHIA 

EXCHANGE  CIRCLES 


KANSAS  CITY  V  I  SE  ACCOMPLISHING 
THINGS  IN  PUBLICITY 

The  publicity  department  of  the  V-L-S-E, 
in  Kansas  City,  is  accomplishing  things.  It 
is  helping  the  exhibitor  to  improve  his 
business;  it  is  helping  the  newspaper  get 
more  advertising,  and  last  but  not  least,  it  is 
getting  the  business  for  the  V-L-S-E  ex- 
change. 

H.  E.  Stahler,  one  of  the  road  men  in 
Kansas,  has  succeeded  in  having  the  news- 
papers, in  seven  out  of  every  ten  towns  in 
which  he  works,  start  motion  picture  pages, 
and  in  one  instance  a  small  town  daily 
started  a  page  and  it  was  not  a  week  later 
until  its  contemporary  began  advertising 
the  fact  that  it  was  the  paper  that  carried 
the  real  live  moving  picture  news  of  that 
city. 

L.  J.  Scott,  a  former  exhibitor,  is  in 
charge  of  this  department.  He  deserves 
great  credit  for  his  work  in  the  way  of 
advertising  the  industry  by  working  on  the 
newspapers  in  his  territory,  in  an  effort  to 
have  them  start  moving  picture  pages. 

This  publicity  department  was  due  to  the 
thought  of  Manager  Pearson.  The  question 
of  advertising  comes  up  in  every  talk  for  a 
contract,  and  Manager  Pearson  thought  out 
the  plan  of  a  publicity  campaign  that  would 
take  care  of  it. 


NEW  KRITERION  PROGRAM  WINNING 
SUPPORT 

Last  week  was  a  busy  week  for  the 
new  Kriterion  Sales  Corporation.  B.  M. 
Corbett,  Mr.  Muller  and  Mr.  Bower,  of 
the  Kriterion  corporation  of  Boston,  spent 
several  days  during  the  week  in  going  over 
the  coming  productions  of  the  new  pro- 
gram. 

E.  T.  Peter,  of  Dallas,  Texas,  who  spent 
ten  days  in  going  over  the  Kriterion  com- 
ing program,  accepted  it  for  his  territory. 
Cotter  and  Walsh,  of  the  St.  Louis  Kri- 
terion, were  so  well  pleased  with  the  com- 
ing program  that  they  have  closed  for  Kan- 
sas City  territory  in  addition  to  the  terri- 
tory they  control  now. 

One  of  the  largest  exhibitors  in  Balti- 
more, who  controls  four  high  class  houses, 
and  who  has  shown  all  of  the  previous 
Kriterion  releases,  has  shown  some  of  the 
pictures  three  times,  and  has  arranged  to 
run  future  Kriterion  releases. 


BERNARD  VISITS  NEVADA  EXHIBITORS 
FOR  FOX 

W.  Bernard,  who  travels  out  of  the  San 
Francisco  branch  of  the  Fox  Film  Corpo- 
ration, is  making  a  trip  through  Nevada  to 
get  exhibitors  in  that  state  lined  up  before 
the  winter  season  commences  and  makes 
travel  difficult. 

It  is  stated  that  more  busines.s  than  ever 
is  being  booked  since  the  new  cash  policy 
has  been  adopted. 


MADSON  NEW  MUTUAL  MANAGER  AT 
SALT  LAKE 

J.  E.  Madson,  manager  of  the  United 
Film  Service  of  Salt  Lake  City,  has  re- 
signed to  accept  a  similar  position  with  the 
Mutual  Film  Corporation  there.  Mr. 
Madson  has  many  friends  in  this  commu- 
nity, and  his  success  in  his  new  position 
is  assured. 


A PRIVATE  view  of  the  Fox  Film  Cor- 
poration's "Carmen,"  with  Theda 
Bara  in  the  title  role,  was  given  at  the 
Arcadia  theatre,  Philadelphia,  on  Thurs- 
day, October  28,  after  the  regular  perform- 
ance. 

Mr.  Hennessey,  manager  of  the  Fox  Ex- 
change, sent  out  invitations  to  a  number 
of  interested  people,  including  the  rep- 
resentatives of  the  press,  and  asked  for  a 
frank  expression  of  opinion  from  them. 
In  view  of  the  exciting  adventures  of  the 
Lasky  "Carmen,"  curiosity  is  rife  as  to 
what  the  Board  of  Censors  will  do  to  this 
one. 

Already  exhibitors  are  eagerly  clamor- 
ing for  this  picture.  It  is  not  yet  decided 
who  will  have  the  first  Philadelphia 
showing. 

The  Famous  Players  Exchange  report  a 
whirlwind  success  on  their  Lasky  "Car- 
men." So  great  was  the  demand  for  seats 
at  the  Stanley  theatre,  that  the  scheduled 
run  of  one  week  was  lengthened  into  two. 
From  the  Stanley  the  picture  goes  to  the 
Palace,  another  big  link  in  the  Stanley 
chain  of  houses.  The  exchange  has  al- 
ready four  prints  of  Carmen  working  in 
Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  Pope,  manager  of  the  Continental 
Feature  Exchange,  says  that  "Damaged 
Goods"  was  utterly  barred  out  of  Penn- 
sylvania by  the  State  Board  of  Censors. 
Those  Pennsylvanians  who  wish  to  see 
this  highly  commended  picture  with  its 


ADMIRABLE  pointers  to  help  the 
exhibitor,  not  only  of  Paramount, 
but  of  any  sort  of  pictures,  are  given  in 
a  letter  written  to  Paramount  exhibitors 
in  New  England  by  George  K.  Robinson, 
manager  of  the  efficiency  and  publicity 
department  of  the  Famous  Players  Com- 
pany of  New  England,  with  headquarters 

I  NORTH  ENDORSES  NEWS  | 
I  CAMPAIGN  I 

I  When  a  Trade  Paper  comes  out  and  | 

I  advocates  the  use  of  the  newspapers  it  | 

1  is  time  for  all  interested  parties  to  sit  i 

i  up  and  take  notice.    In  the  "Motion  i 

I  Picture  News"  under  date  of  Oct.  16,  | 

1  the  -first  article  entitled  "The  News-  i 

1  paper  vs.  The  Trade  Paper,"  deserves  i 

1  the  most  careful  attention  of  the  ex-  | 

I  hibitors  throughout  our  territory  and  1 

I  we  hope  that  every  one  of  our  PALS  i 

I  have  already  read  this  carefully  and  1 

1  then  made  another  call  on  your  pub-  i 

i  lisher     demanding     motion     picture  1 

i  pages.    If  there  is  a  publisher  in  the  1 

i  country   today   who   cannot   see   the  i 

I  logic  in  the  statements  made  in  that  1 

1  article  and  fails  to  take  advantage  of  i 

i  the  suggestions,  then,  if  he  is  not  al-  i 

1  ready  running  a  motion  picture  page,  i 

f  that  publisher  is  as  sound  asleep  as  1 

1  old  Rip  Van  Winkle  ever  was.  WAKE  i 

I  HIM  UP,  PALS.   NOW!!!  | 

I  TOM  NORTH,  | 

I  Manager,  Seattle  V-L-S-E  Exchange  g 

I  in  "V-L-S-E  Pals,"  October  23.  | 

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great  moral  lesson  must  take  a  trip  to 
New  Jersey.  At  Atlantic  City,  the  City 
Square  theatre,  Edward  J.  O  Keefe  pro- 
prietor, showed  the  film  to  10,000  people 
in  two  days. 

F.  W.  Martsch,  formerly  with  the 
Metropolitan  Booking  Office,  has  trans- 
ferred his  services  to  the  Tri-State  Star 
Feature  Company,  where  he  is  head  of 
the  booking  department. 

The  whole  exchange  from  President 
Binns  down  is  agog  over  their  latest  ac- 
quisition, "The  Victory  of  Virtue,"  the 
United  Photo  Plays  Company's  release 
with  Gerda  Holmes  and  Wilmuth  Merkyl 
as  stars. 

A  private  screening  of  the  picture  will 
be  given  in  a  few  days,  after  which  it  will 
be  decided  who  of  the  several  theatre  man- 
agers, eager  for  the  first  showing  of  the 
film,  is  to  have  that  privilege. 

J.  S.  Hebrew,  manager  of  the  V-L-S-E 
exchange,  has  been  in  Washington  a  few 
days  looking  after  business  connected  with 
the  branch  office  located  in  the  Capital 
City. 

Tillie's  Tomato  Surprise  with  Marie 
Dressier  is  going  well  on  V-L-S-E  pro- 
gram in  spite  of  hard  knocks  given  by 
the  censors.  Strong  protests  were  made 
before  some  essential  parts  of  the  picture 
were  allowed  to  remain  in.  One  of  the 
things  was  "Tillie"  falling  into  a  barrel 
of  molasses.  Echo  is  kept  too  busy  ask- 
mg  "Why?" 


in    Boston.     In    part,    his    letter    reads : 

"It  is  advantageous  to  use  a  house  bul- 
letin weekly,  to  let  the  people  know  what 
you  have  and  when  you  are  going  to  have 
it,  and  above  all  things,  be  persistent  in 
the  use  of  it. 

"Then  have  your  house  light.  Experi- 
ment with  colors,  such  as  having  amber 
in  your  ceiling  lights,  also  at  your  en- 
trance, side  lights  green,  and  the  boxes 
green,  blue  or  red.  Don't  use  a  brown 
colored  globe,  but  dip  them  in  color. 
The  right  effect  will  not  hurt  your  pro- 
jection, and  it  has  this  advantage:  it 
lets  a  patron  see  where  he  is  going  to 
sit,  also  beside  whom,  and  the  manager 
can  always  see  his  audience. 

"Try  and  mould  the  leader  of  your 
orchestra  or  your  pianist  to  fit  his  music 
to  the  picture,  and  by  all  means  cut  out 
the  effects  by  the  drummer. 

"Have  the  ushers  polite  and  watch 
what  they  say  to  the  patron,  such  for 
example,  as,  'May  I  trouble  you  to  rise?' 
If  he  has  to  disturb  the  patron  again, 
have  him  say,  'May  I  trouble  you  again 
to  rise?'  If  a  lady  has  her  hat  on  make 
him  say,  'Would  you  oblige  the  manage- 
ment by  removing  your  hat,  as  it  ob- 
structs the  view  of  patrons  back  of  you?' 
instead  of,  'Hats  off.'  If  any  argument 
arises,  don't  let  the  usher  settle  it,  but 
have  him  call  the  house  officer  or  the 
manager. 

"Have  the  manager  know  as  many  of 
his  patrons  as  possible.    Never  advertise 


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HAPPENINGS    OF  INTEREST  IN  AND   ABOUT  THE 
VANCOUVER  EXCHANGES 


anything  you  are  not  going  to  do.  Don't 
cheat.  Watch  your  projection.  Keep 
your  machines  up,  get  new  parts  for 
those  worn,  and  keep  the  booth  clean 
from  the  floor  to  the  lenses.  Paint  the 
inside  green,  as  this  helps  the  operators, 
and  kills  lots  of  escaping  rays  that  mar 
the  picture. 

"The  game  of  exhibiting  is  one  of  'who 
is  fit,'  and  you  all  can  become  so." 


DETROIT  MUTUAL  MANAGER  LOOKS 
FOR  LARGER  QUARTERS 

G.  J.  Trask,  manager  of  the  Detroit  of- 
fice of  the  Mutual,  says  business  is  so  good 
that  he  is  looking  around  for  a  new  loca- 
tion, which  will  enable  him  to  enlarge  his 
facilities  and  have  his  offices  on  the  first 
floor. 

"Our  business  in  Detroit  and  throughout 
the  state  is  getting  better  all  the  time," 
he  told  the  News  representative.  On  the 
subject  of  whether  stage  people  were  more 
in  demand  than  screen  stars  for  pictures, 
Mr.  Trask  spoke  decidedly  in  favor  of 
screen  stars. 

"A  good  screen  star  in  a  picture,  to  my 
■way  of  thinking,  is  much  better  as  a  draw- 
ing card  than  the  stage  favorites,"  he  said. 
"People  want  the  picture  stars." 


COASTS  LARGEST   THEATRE  BOOKS 
"COLLEGE  ORPHAN"  FOR  WEEK 

The  Los  Angeles  Universal  exchange  has 
hooked  the  Carter  De  Haven  subject,  "The 
College  Orphan,"  produced  by  William  C. 
Dowlan,  for  the  week  of  October  25  at 
■dune's  Auditorium,  the  largest  theatre  on 
the  Coast,  and  where  "The  Clansman"  was 
shown  for  twenty-four  weeks. 

This  theatre  attempts  at  all  times  to  se- 
•cure  the  best  available  subjects,  and  all 
members  of  the  Universal  producing  staff, 
here,  together  with  those  of  the  local  ex- 
•change,  are  highly  elated  that  this  subject 
is  to  be  shown  here. 


PATHE'S  DETROIT   OFFICE  REPORTS 
VERY  ACTIVE  BUSINESS 
L.  E.  Franconi,  manager  of  the  Detroit 
office  of  Pathe,  reports  a  very  active  busi- 
ness. 

The  Washington  theatre  has  contracted 
for  the  first  run  rights  on  the  J.  Rufus 
Wallingford  series.  Thirty  theatres  in  De- 
troit are  running  "Neal  of  the  Navy,"  and 
first  run  rights  on  Pathe  Gold  Rooster 
features  have  been  contracted  for  by  the 
■management  of  the  new  Duplex  theatre, 
in  course  of  erection  at  East  Grand  Boule- 
vard, near  Woodward  avenue. 


GOLDSTONE  ATTENDS  MEETING  OF 

WORLD  BRANCH  MANAGERS 
Philip  Goldstone,  manager  of  the  World 
■exchange  at  Omaha,  Neb.,  went  to  Chi- 
■cago,  Friday  of  last  week  to  attend  a 
meeting  of  all  the  World  branch  man- 
agers in  the  United  States. 


SEATTLE  EXCHANGES  MUST  INSTALL 
AUTOMATIC  SPRINKLERS 
A  city  ordinance  has  been  passed  in  Seat- 
tle compelling  all  film  exchanges  to  install 
an  automatic  sprinkler  system  throughout 
their  film  vaults,  inspecting  and  shipping 
rooms. 


WHAT  practically  amounts  to  the 
establishment  of  another  exchange 
in  Vancouver,  B.  C,  is  brought  about  by 
the  importation  of  V-L-S-E  subjects  by 
W.  P.  Dewees,  of  the  Rex  theatre,  who 
is  securing  them  from  Manager  Tom 
North,  of  the  V-L-S-E  office  in  Seattle. 
A  sort  of  co-operative  circuit,  with  each 
house  paying  its  pro  rata  share  of  the 
duty  on  each  subject  used,  is  now  being 
formed  under  the  supervision  of  Mr. 
Dewees.  The  Province  and  Bijou  the- 
atres in  Winnipeg,  through  arrangements 
made  with  John  A.  Schuberg,  are  already 
using  the  service,  in  addition  to  the  Rex 
and  Globe  theatres  in  Vancouver,  and 
the  Columbia  in  Victoria.  The  two  latter 
houses  are  among  those  controlled  by  the 
National  Amusement  Company. 

S.  B.  Taube,  who  has  been  associated 
with  the  Universal  organization  in  Can- 
ada for  several  years,  and  has  lately  been 
in  charge  of  the  Vancouver  office  of  this 
company,  has  handed  in  his  resignation, 
to  take  effect  immediately.  James  E. 
Finch,  accompanied  by  D.  G.  Walkley, 
manager  of  the  Calgary  office,  arrived  in 
Vancouver  from  Toronto  last  Saturday, 
and  on  Monday  took  over  the  branch 
there.  Mr.  Finch  has  lately  been  special 
representative  for  this  company  in  East- 
ern Canada,  and  was  formerly  associated 
with  the  Famous  Players  and  World 
Film  organizations  as  road  man.  Mr. 
Taube,  an  efficient  manager,  will  shortly 


THE  Famous  Players  Exchange  which 
is  the  Washington  D.  C.  office  of 
the  Paramount  Program,  has  moved 
into  larger  and  more  commodious 
quarters  at  1210  G  street.  Under  the  man- 
agement of  George  M.  Mann  this  ex- 
change has  developed  until  it  at  present 
holds  the  sixth  place  among  the  Para- 
mount offices  over  the  country.  The  new 
quarters  have  been  fitted  up  with  special 
reference  to  efficiency  in  each  depart- 
ment. Mr.  Mann's  office  is  set  off  so 
as  not  to  be  disturbed  with  other  busi- 
ness; the  publicity  department,  under 
the  direction  of  J.  Hesser  Walraven,  is 
also  to  itself  and  away  from  the  bustle 
of  shipments  and  visitors.  An  attractive 
reception  room  forms  the  entrance  to 
the  offices,  while  the  shipping  and  cleri- 
cal departments  are  adequately  and  effi- 
ciently housed. 

Paper,  photos,  booklets  and  slides 
pertaining  to  films  are  systematically 
arranged,  with  ample  space  for  delivery 
and  packing.  The  films  are  stored  in  fire- 
proof safes  and  the  building  itself  is 
considered  fire-proof. 

An  innovation  is  the  installation  of  a 
system  of  dictaphones  whereby  Mr. 
Mann  may  consult  Mr.  Walraven  -n-ithout 
either  leaving  their  desks.  In  like  man- 
ner either  of  these  officials  may  dictate 
to  the  clerks  installed  in  another  office. 
"This,"  said  Mr.  Walraven.  "will  be  a 
great  time  saver  and  will  greatly  facili- 
tate many  matters  which  may  be  of  corn- 


announce  his  new  connection,  having  al- 
ready received  two  offers. 

William  Alexander,  representative  of 
the  Fox  Feature  Film  Corporation,  spent 
two  days  in  Vancouver,  and  it  is  alto- 
gether likely  that  as  a  result  of  this  visit 
the  Fox  productions  will  soon  be  brought 
into  Vancouver  territory.  An  offer  has 
been  made  for  the  Western  Canadian 
rights,  but  further  negotiations  will  un- 
doubtedly be  necessary  before  a  definite 
settlement  is  reached.  C.  St.  John,  for- 
merly with  a  Winnipeg  newspaper,  has 
been  appointed  representative  for  the 
Fox  company  in  Canada,  and  it  is  stated 
that  offices  w^ill  be  opened  immediately 
in  Eastern  Canadian  cities.  Stops  were 
made  by  Mr.  Alexander  in  Calgary 
and  Winnipeg,  where  negotiations  were 
opened  with  exchange  men. 

Manager  E.  R.  Fauser,  of  the  Dominion 
Film  Exchange,  has  begun  the  importa- 
tion of  Kleine-Edison  features  through 
the  Kleine  office  in  Seattle.  These  sub- 
jects are  being  kept  in  Canada  only  one 
week,  being  shown  at  the  Orpheum  the- 
atre in  Vancouver  and  the  Royal  Victoria 
theatre  in  Victoria.  Mr.  Fauser  states 
that  all  Kleine  features  which  have  not 
heretofore  been  shown  in  Vancouver, 
such  as  "Julius  Caesar,"  will  also  be 
brought  in. 

Still  another  exchange  is  projected  for 
Vancouver,  but  the  promoters  are  not 
yet  ready  to  make  an  announcement. 


mon  interest  to  several  of  us.  Our  offices 
are  about  twice  the  size  of  the  old  ones, 
which  of  itself  speaks  for  the  growth  of 
Paramount  in  this  territory.  We  had 
outgrown  the  other  quarters  and  a  move 
was  absolutely  necessary.  With  the  news 
weekly  we  are  inaugurating  additional 
force  and  space  was  also  necessary,  and 
all  have  been  housed  in  our  present 
offices." 

Mr.  Mann  has  surrounded  himself  with 
men  who  are  experts  in  their  particular 
line.  With  Mr.  Whitiker  as  a  road  man, 
Mr.  Walraven  conducting  the  publicity 
end,  he  has  found  it  necessary  to  add  to 
his  force  recently.  Francis  Petrot.  for- 
merly a  newspaper  man  of  Waterbury, 
Conn.,  is  assistant  to  Mr.  Walraven  and 
James  J.  Goebel,  expert  cameraman,  will 
handle  the  news  items  for  Paramount  in 
the  Washington  vicinity. 

DRESNER  GETS  ASSOCIATED  RIGHTS 
FOR  TWO  STATES 

A.  Dresner,  general  manager  of  the 
Kriterion  Film  Service  of  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  has  been  spending  the  last  two  weeks 
in  New  York  getting  a  line  on  the  Asso- 
ciated Program,  and  has  contracted  for  the 
states  of  Indiana  and  Kentucky. 

Mr.  Dresner  started  with  Lubin  about 
twelve  years  ago.  He  has  managed  the 
General  Film  in  Cincinnati  and  L^niversal 
Film  in  Washington,  and  has  also  con- 
trolled a  vast  number  of  theatres  through- 
out the  middle  western  states. 


WASHINGTON  FAMOUS   PLAYERS   EXCHANGE  NOW 
HOUSED  IN  LARGER  QUARTERS 


November  13,  1915. 


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London,  Oct.  20. 

A BRITISH  Film  Board  of  Trade, 
modeled  after  the  recently  organ- 
ized Motion  Picture  Board  of 
Trade  of  America,  is  advocated  by  The 
Cinema,  which  points  out  the  dangers  con- 
fronting the  film  industry  in  England,  and 
the  need  for  organization  to  successfully 
combat  those  dangers.  The  Cinema,  ad- 
dressing English  renters  directly,  says : 

"Consider  what  has  happened  to  you — the 
trade — during  only  the  past  few  weeks : 

"You  have  had  a  thumping  tax  placed 
on  your  imported  negatives  without  your 
representatives  being  consulted  in  any  way. 

"The  position  of  London  as  the  world's 
film-market  has  been  seriously  damaged, 
if  not  destroyed. 

"A  heavy  blow  has  been  dealt  to  the 
British  film-printing  business. 

"Consider,  in  addition,  what  you  are  now 
and  prospectively  faced  with : 

"A  possible  increase  in  film  taxes. 
"Restrictions  on  licenses. 
"Restrictions  on  exhibition  of  films. 
"Restrictions  on  attendance  of  children. 
"Restrictions  on  film  storage. 
"A  possible  tax  on  seating  accommoda- 
tion. 

"And  what  are  you  doing  to  face  the  posi- 
tion ?  The  answer  can  be  expressed  in 
one  word : 

"Talk ! 

"The  Cinema,  claiming  the  privilege  of 
an  intimate  friend,  wishes  to  assure  you, 
with  the  most  emphatic  sincerity,  that  the 
present  is  the  time  for  Action — not  Talk ! 

"You  have  no  central  organization.  You 
have  no  single  body  that  can  speak  with  a 
united  voice  on  behalf  of  the  whole  trade. 
You  have  no  representative  committee  or 
governing  board  that  can  protect  the  inter- 
ests of  the  trade  against  conflict  with  out- 
side interests.  You  fritter  away  your  time, 
temper,  and  energy  on  sectional  sessions 
and  individual  intrigues.  You  are  divided 
against  yourselves. 

The  Remedy 

"What  you  need  is  a  Film  Board  of  Trade. 
The  Cinema  has  suggested  the  formation  of 
such  a  body  on  several  recent  occasions, 
and  we  suggest  it  again. 

"Look  at  what  has  been  done  in  the  States 
during  the  past  few  weeks !  The  American 
trade  is  threatened  with  a  wholly  reaction- 
ary and  restrictive  censorship.  They  have 
united  to  meet  the  danger,  and  united  in 
no  half-hearted  fashion. 

"They  formed  a  Moving  Picture  Board 
of  Trade  on  September  15,  and  by  Septem- 
ber 20  over  £2,000  had  been  received  in  sub- 
scriptions.   £2,000  in  five  days ! 

"If  it  means  so  much  to  the  American 
trade,  does  it  not  means  as  much,  at  this 
juncture,  to  the  British  trade?  The  appeal 
is  to  the  business,  not  the  patriotic,  instinct. 


There  is  nothing  the  matter  with  our 
patriotism." 

After  calling  the  charter  of  the  American 
Board  "ideal,"  The  Cinema  proceeds : 

"The  board  of  directors  consists  of  rep- 
resentatives of  manufacturers,  suppliers, 
renters,  exhibitors,  and  several  of  the  mis- 
cellaneous factors  in  the  industry.  They 
have  already  elected  a  president,  a  vice- 
president  for  each  section,  and  a  number  of 
standing  committees,  including  executive, 
membership,  auditing,  finance,  arbitration, 
and  publicity,  together  with  various  secre- 
taries and  a  counsel. 

"That  is  exactly  what  we  want  in  this 
country,  and  we  cannot  get  it,  apparently, 
because  the  members  of  this  industry  are, 
as  a  trade,  lacking  in  public  spirit,  jealous 
of  each  other  individually,  suspicious  of  the 


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different  trade  organizations,  and  short- 
sighted where  their  joint  interest  is  con- 
cerned." 


SIR  GEORGE  ALEXANDER  TO  APPEAR 
IN  LONDON  FILM  PLAYS 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

London,  Oct.  20. 
Not  long  after  Sir  Herbert  Tree  an- 
nounced, just  previous  to  starting  for  the 
United  States,  that  he  would  put  his 
Shakespearean  successes  into  the  films,  ap- 
pearing before  the  camera  himself.  Sir 
George  Alexander  accepted  an  offer  from 
the  London  Film  company  by  which  he 
will  appear  in  a  picturization  of  "The  Gay 
Lord  Quex"  and  "The  Importance  of  Be- 
ing Earnest." 


Canadians  Give  Ovation  to  Valli  Valli  in  a  Metro 

After  Showing  of  "High  Road"  the  Star,  on  Informing  Audience  in  Imperial  Theatre,  Mon- 
treal, That  a  Brother  Is  at  the  Front,  Is  Greeted  with  Wild  Applause 


IV/IETRO  pictures  made  their  Canadian 
AVI  debut  by  turning  away  over  ten 
thousand  patrons  from  the  Imperial  thea- 
tre, Montreal,  on  Monday  night,  October 
18.  Great  preparations  had  been  made  for 
the  occasion,  some  of  the  leading  people 
of  the  whole  province  were  present,  and 
congratulations  poured  in  through  hun- 
dreds of  telegrams. 

When  Manager  Howard  Conover  and 
the  officers  of  Metro  Pictures,  Limited, 
came  down  to  the  theatre  at  seven  o'clock 
they  found  the  police  reserves  had  been 
called  out  by  the  theatre  employees,  and 
every  seat  in  the  house  taken.  By  eight 
o'clock  Bleury  street  was  packed  so  that 
cars  could  not  be  run  through  it,  and  hun- 
dreds of  autos  and  carriages  were  lined 
up,  till  it  resembled  the  opening  night  of 
the  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  New  York. 

Most  of  the  distinguished  visitors  were 
forced  to  wait  until  the  second  show  began, 
and  when  "The  High  Road"  came  on  the 
screen  for  the  second  time  a  well  known 
society  editor  declared  that  it  was  the  most 
distinguished  assemblage  ever  seen  in  a 
Montreal  theatre. 

After  an  introduction  by  Alderman  Boyd, 
a  leading  city  official,  Valli  Valli  came  on 
the  stage  in  person,  and  told  the  audience 
that  it  was  one  of  the  happiest  moments 
of  her  life,  as  she  felt  that  she  was  among 
her  own  people.  She  told  them  that  her 
brother  was  at  the  front,  fighting  for  his 
king  and  country,  and  that  her  every  sym- 
pathy was  with  Britain  in  the  war. 

Cheers  interrupted  her  again  and  again, 
and  when  she  spoke  of  the  patriotic  scena- 
rio contest  now  being  conducted  in  Can- 
ada, to  encourage  the  writing  of  a  Cana- 
ian  scenario  to  be  made  in  Canada,  the 
applause  was  deafening. 

As  she  was  making  her  exit  a  member 


of  the  staff  of  Aletro  Pictures,  Limited, 
came  forward  with  a  flower  basket  of 
sterling  silver,  three  feet  tall,  which  he 
presented  to  Miss  Valli  on  behalf  of  Metro 
Pictures,  Limited,  and  Mr.  Herbert  Lubin, 
its  managing  director.  The  house  went 
wild  in  their  applause,  and  were  delighted 
when  it  was  announced  that  an  addi- 
tional surprise  was  in  store  for  the  audi- 
ence in  the  personal  appearance  of  Edward 
Brennan,  the  popular  screen  favorite,  who 
supported  Miss  Valli  in  "The  High  Road." 
He  was  presented  with  a  silver  cigarette 
case. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  man- 
agement of  the  Imperial  theatre  radically 
changed  its  policy  to  bring  in  Metro  pic- 
tures, raising  the  prices  for  the  best  seats 
from  fifty  cents  to  twenty-five  cents.  A 
beautiful  stage  setting  was  provided  to- 
show  off  the  new  program  to  the  best  ad- 
vantage, the  Astor  roof  garden  being  du- 
plicated most  effectively,  with  the  orches- 
tra on  the  stage.  "The  High  Road"  as  a 
picture  received  a  great  deal  of  applause, 
and_  the  Montreal  newspapers  on  the  fol- 
lowing morning  were  high  in  their  praise. 

After  the  theatre  party  a  banquet  was 
tendered  to  Miss  Valli,  at  which  the  lead- 
ing financial  boards,  newspapers  and  mili- 
tary were  represented. 

Metre  pictures  will  hereafter  be  the  regu- 
lar program  at  the  Imperial  for  the  first 
three  days  of  each  week. 


ORRAL  HUMPHREY  TO  STAR  IN 

"ENGLISH"  COMEDIES 
Orral  Humphrey  who  in  "The  Diamond" 
from  the  Sky,"  appears  as  the  English  bar- 
rister, "Marmaduke  Smythe,"  will  be 
starred  in  a  number  of  "English"  comedies 
when  the  serial  is  finished. 


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Looking  Ahead  With  The  Producers 


ELABORATE  PRODUCTION  FOR  NEW' 
BEATRIZ  MICHELENA  SUBJECT 

Elaborateness  of  sets  and  costumes 
will  be  an  outstanding  feature  of  the 
early  scenes  of  Edwin  Milton  Royle's 
"Unwritten  Law"  as  it  is  now  being  pro- 
duced in  motion  pictures  by  the  Cali- 
fornia Motion  Picture  Corporation  at 
their  San  Rr.fael  studio. 

This  announcement  is  particularly  in- 
teresting to  Beatriz  Michelena's  follow- 
ing of  admirers,  since  it  will  be  her  first 


BEATRIZ  MICHELENA  AS  THE  BRIDE  IN 
UNWRITTEN  LAW" 


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opportunity  to  appear  on  the  screen  as  a 
daughter  of  wealth,  and  it  will  conse- 
quently stand  out  in  sharp  contrast  to 
the  great  majority  of  '-er  previous  roles. 
Heretofore,  she  has  won  her  way  to  the 
hearts  of  the  motion  picture  public  in 
such  impersonations  as  "Salomy  Jane," 
"Mignon,"  "Lovey  Mary"  of  "Mrs. 
Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch,"  "Lily"  of 
"The  Lily  of  Poverty  Flat,"  and  "Nell 
Sanders"  in  "Salvation  Nell." 

In  each  of  these  characterizations  the 
predominating  environment  was  one  of 
poverty.  In  the  present  picture,  how- 
ever. Miss  Michelena  is  to  be  introduced 
as  the  bride  of  a  millionaire  attornej' 
with  aspirations  for  the  Governorship. 


EQUITABLE  RENTS  PLAZA  THEATRE 
FOR  "LABYRINTH"  SCENES 

The  Equitable  Motion  Pictures  Cor- 
poration, last  week  rented  the  Plaza 
theatre  at  Madison  avenue  and  Fifty- 
ninth  street,  New  York  City,  and  staged 
several  of  the  big  scenes  in  "The  Laby- 


rinth" in  which  Gail  Kane  is  appearing. 

Two  thousand  extra  people  occupied 
the  auditorium  seats,  while  the  entire 
"Town  Topics  Company"  from  the  Cen- 
tury theatre,  in  full  stage  attire,  pre- 
sented the  second  act  of  that  play  be- 
fore the  camera,  with  Gail  Kane  taking 
the  principal  role  instead  of  the  regular 
leading  woman. 

The  entire  theatre  was  wired  and 
lights  installed  and  the  scenes  staged 
from  six  in  the  morning  until  late  in  the 
evening. 

E.  Mason  Hopper  directed  the  efforts 
of  the  multitude  of  extras  and  forty  prin- 
cipals. 


MANTELL  AND  NANCE  O'NEIL  ir 
FOX  PHOTOPLAYS  SOON 

The  William  Fox  production  of  "Car- 
men" is  to  be  followed  shortly  by  other 
Fox  photoplays  of  note.  Robert  B.  Mantell 
in  "The  Blindness  of  Devotion"  will  be  re- 
leased November  7,  followed  by  Nancf 
O'Neil  in  "A  Woman's  Past." 

"The  Blindness  of  Devotion,"  which  is 
by  Rex  Ingram,  is  a  story  which  combines 
beauty,  love  hatred,  revenge  and  action. 
Mr.  Mantell  is  supported  by  Genevieve 
Hamper.  The  production  is  under  the 
direction  of  J.  Gordan  Edwards. 

"A  Woman's  Past"  abounds  in  dramatic 
situations  and  is  a  drastic  arraignment  of 
the  morals  of  present-day  society.  It  is 
from  the  New  York  stage  success  by  Cap- 
tain John  King  and  is  directed  by  Frank 
Powell.  Seldom  in  her  career  has  Miss 
O'Neil,  it  is  said  had  a  better  vehicle  for 
the  display  of  her  talent  than  that  afforded 
her  in  the  character  of  Jane  Hawley. 


CHAPLIN  IN  SILK  HAT  AND  DRESS 
SUIT  FOR  NEXT  COMEDY 

Charles  Chaplin  of  the  worn  out  shoes 
and  old  clothes  appears  in  a  new  role  in 
the  latest  Essanay-Chaplin  comedy,  "A 
Xight  in  the  Show,"  which  soon  is  to  be 
released. 

In  this  play  Mr.  Chaplin  doffs  his  old 
costume  and  appears  in  dress  suit  and  silk 
hat.  But  even  in  this  disguise  it  is  impos- 
sible not  to  recognize  the  Chaplin  walk,  the 
Chaplin  capers  and  the  inimitable  Chaplin 
mannerisms.  He  is  Charles  Chaplin, 
whether  in  the  garb  of  a  hobo  or  a  man 
of  society. 

This  cuinedy  proves  conclusively,  it  is 
said,  that  it  is  not  Charles  Chaplin's  make- 
up, funny  as  that  has  been  considered,  that 
endears  Chaplin  to  the  photoplay  public. 

Critics  who  have  watched  him  at  work 
on  his  newest  piece  declare  that  he  is  fun- 
nier than  ever,  although  a  new  Chaplin 
in  a  new  role. 


W  HITn  ORTH  TO  MAKE  HIS  SCREEN 
DEBUT  IN  "WASTED  LIVES" 

Robert  Whitworth.  the  English  actor,  is 
the  latest  recruit  from  the  legitimate  stage 
to  join  the  ranks  of  film  stars,  having  re- 
cently been  engaged  by  the  Vitagraph  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Whitworth  will  be  remembered 
for  his  appearances  with  Nazimova  in 
'Bella  Donna,"  and  with  Phillis  Nielson- 
Terry  in  "The  Adventure  of  Lady  Ursula." 

His  first  part  as  a  screen  actor  will  be  in 
"Waste  Lives,"  a  three-part  society  drama 
by  Ouida  Bergere,  upon  which  Director 
Theodore  Marston  is  now  at  work  for  the 
Vitagraph  Compan)'. 


SCENE  DURING  THE  FILMING  OF  "THE  CRIMSON  WING"   (Ess?nay)   AT  THE  HOME  OF  THE 
AUTHOR,  HQBART  CHATFIELD-TAYLOR 


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STRIKING  VIEWS  FROM  TWO  VITAGRAPH  BLUE  RIBBON  FEATURES  SOON  TO  BE  OFFERED  TO  EXHIBITORS 


(LEFT)  SCENE  FROM  "THE  CAVEMAN,"  FEATURING  ROBERT  EDESON;  (CENTER)  CHAELES  RICHMAN,  STAR  OF  "COLTON,  U.  S.  N."  AOTJ  (RICtHT) 

ONE  OF  THE  NAVAL  SCENES  TAKEN  AT  NEWPORT,  R.  I.,  FOR  THAT  DRAMA 


ALICE  BRADY  WITH  MILTON  SILS  IN 
"THE  RACK" 

Alice  Brady  is  the  star  in  the  forth- 
coming production  of  "The  Back,"  based 
upon  a  Brady  success. 

In  that  picture,  Milton  Sils,  who  made 
such  a  success  in  "The  Pit"  and  "The 
Arrival  of  Perpetua,"  will  also  be  seen. 

The  picture  is  in  the  hands  of  Emile 
Chautard,  who  recently  completed  "The 
Little  Church  Around  the  Corner." 


FAMOUS  PLAYERS  WILL   GIVE  ''OLD  HOMESTEAD,' 
RURAL  CLASSIC,  AN  ELABORATE  PRODUCTION 


ALL  STAR  VITAGRAPH  CAST  IN  "AN 
INNOCENT  SINNER" 

An  all-star  cast  of  Vitagraph  players, 
that  includes  Jewel  Hunt,  Harry  Morey, 
Garry  McGarry,  Anders  Randolf,  Arthur 
Cozine,  Jay  Dwiggins  and  Belle  Bruce, 
have  begun  work  on  Alice  Williams'  two- 
part  drama,  "An  Innocent  Sinner,"  being 
produced  under  the  direction  of  C.  Jay 
Williams. 


BY  a  rare  coincidence,  the  first  scene 
taken  in  the  old  Durland  Riding 
Academy  which  was  acquired  for  studio 
purposes  by  the  Famous  Players  Film 
Company  after  the  burning  of  its  Twen- 
t3'-sixth  street  headquarters,  was  the 
opening  of  "The  Old  Homestead,"  the 
rural  classic  which  for  over  thirty  years 
served  to  endear  itself,  and  its  star  and 
author,  Denman  Thompson,  to  the  Amer- 
ican public. 

It  is  doubtful  if  any  other  play  is  as 
well  known  to  the  masses  as  "The  Old 
Homestead,"  with  the  possible  exception 
of  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin."  It  is  one  of 
the  few  plays  which  the  great  motion  pic- 
ture public  knows  as  it  knows  its  alpha- 
bet. 

Denman  Thompson's  old  home  will  be 


SMASHING  NAVY  DRAMA  AND  STORY  OF  EVOLUTION 
ON  VITAGRAPH  CALENDAR 


CYRUS  TOWNSEND  BRADY'S  "Col- 
ton,  U.  S.  N.,"  a  smashing  navy 
drama,  has  been  completed  by  the  Vita- 
graph  Company  under  the  direction  of  Paul 
Scardon.  Charles  Richman  played  Colton, 
the  lead. 

Two  interesting  features  in  "Colton,  U. 
S.  N.,"  are  fleet  maneouvres  by  fifteen  bat- 
tle ships,  four  torpedo  boat  destroyers  and 
three  colliers,  under  command  of  Vice- 
Admiral  Henry  T.  Mayo,  U.  S.  N.,  and  a 
thrilling  scries  of  pictures  of  a  landing  of 
280  marines,  getting  away  from  their  battle- 
tleships  and  making  a  landing  on  shore 
through  the  surf,  and  their  advance  in 
realistic  battle  formation  against  a  sup- 
posed enemy. 

After  finishing  the  scenes  at  Newport 
the  company  went  to  Annapolis,  Md., 
where  the  Naval  Academy  served  as  a 
background  for  tense  moments,  as  well  as 
adding  color  to  the  story  by  showing 
glimpses  of  social  life  in  which  the  cadets 
were  prominent. 

The  principal  players  concerned  in  the 
enactment  of  "Colton,  U.  S.  N.,"  included 
Charles     Richman,     Eleanor  Woodrufif, 


James  Norrison,  Zena  Keefe,  Anders  Ran- 
dolf, Charles  Wellesley  and  Thomas  Mills. 
It  will  be  released  as  a  Blue  Ribbon  feature 
in  five  parts. 

Of  the  long  list  of  plays  adapted  by 
Vitagraph  for  the  screen,  the  one  best 
suited  to  the  camera's  requirements,  is 
"The  Cave  Man,"  produced  by  the  Vita- 
graph  Company  under  the  direction  of 
Theodore  Marston,  featuring  Robert 
Edeson  in  the  character  of  Haulick  Smagg. 
"The  Cave  Man"  was  written  by  Gelett 
Burgess,  and  originally  produced  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  as  a  legitimate  comedy-drama, 
with  Mr.  Edeson  in  the  portrayal  of  the 
leading  character. 

In  producing  "The  Cave  Man."  Director 
Marston  spared  neither  pains  nor  labor, 
used  every  known  device  and  camera  trick 
to  enhance  the  value  of  its  situations.  Sup- 
porting .Mr.  Edeson  are  Fay  Wallace,  Lil- 
liam  Burns  and  George  de  Beck  and  other 
players. 

It  is  in  five  parts,  and  is  one  of  the 
most  typically  representative  Blue  Ribbon 
features  yet  announced  by  the  Vitagraph 
Company  for  release. 


used,  by  permission  of  his  son,  Frank 
Thompson,  from  whom  the  rights  to  the 
play  were  obtained,  as  the  settings  for 
the  rural  portion  of  the  story.  The  out- 
lying districts  of  the  typically  quaint 
New  England  town  in  which  it  is  situ- 
ated will  also  be  called  upon  to  furnish 
additional  rustic  atmosphere  for  this  pro- 
duction. 

It  was  in  1875,  while  incapacitated  by 
a  severe  attack  of  rheumatism,  that  Den- 
man Thompson  conceived  the  idea  of 
"The  Old  Homestead,"  which  he  first 
wrote  as  a  vaudeville  sketch  under  the 
title  of  "Joshua  Whitcomb."  In  its 
elaborated  and  expanded  form,  "The  Old 
Homestead"  had  its  first  presentation 
under  its  present  name  at  the  Boston 
theatre  in  1886. 

Conservative  estimates  are  that  over 
twenty-million  people  have  laughed  and 
cried  over  this  play,  which  in  the  last 
three  decades  has  been  presented  in 
everj-  village  and  hamlet  in  the  United 
States  and  Canada. 

James  Kirkwood,  under  whose  direc- 
tion the  adaptation  is  being  made,  states 
that  "The  Old  Homestead"  will  prove 
unique  in  the  history  of  feature  films 
because  of  the  scarcity  of  studio  sets 
which  will  be  used.  With  the  old  Thomp- 
son home,  the  neighboring  village,  and 
old  Grace  Church  in  New  York,  which 
forms  one  of  the  important  settings,  all 
to  be  used  as  actual  backarrounds,  and 
with  many  scenes  transpiring  in  the 
streets  of  New  York,  there  are  but  very 
few  scenes  which  will  be  staged  in  the 
studio. 

The  Famous  Players  are  especially 
indebted  to  Frank  Thompson  for  the 
personal  cooperation  and  assistance 
which  he  has  given  them  in  their  efforts 
to  preserve  to  the  last  detail  the  tradi- 
tions and  atmosphere  with  which  the 
elder  Thompson's  presentation  of  "The 
Old  Homestead"  has  so  long  been  in- 
vested. From  the  photographs  furnished 
by  Mr.  Thompson  the  producers  have 
been  able  to  copy  exactly  the  costumes 
and  make-up  of  the  original  characters 
in  the  play. 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.    N'o.  19. 


ONE  OF  THE  TENSE  SITUATIONS  IN  "THE  PITFALL,"  FOUR  ACT  KALEM  DRAMA 


''GIRL  AND    THE   GAME,"   NEW   FILM   NOVEL  OF 
RAILROAD  LIFE,  WITH  HELEN  HOLMES, 
FROM  MUTUAL 


tt-yHE  GIRL  AND  THE  GAME"  is  the 
A     title  of  the  new  film  novel  to  be 
released  by  the  Mutual  Film  Corporation, 
following  "The  Diamond  from  the  Sky." 

Announcements  coming  from  the 
studios  of  the  recently  organized  Signal 
Film  Corporation,  which  is  making  the 
new  filmized  novel,  say  that  the  first  in- 
stallment will  be  ready  for  release  De- 


HELEN    HOLMES   AND   J.    P.  McGOWAN 


cember  13.  Helen  Holmes  is  the  star 
of  "The  Girl  and  the  Game,"  which  is 
being  produced  by  J.  P.  McGowan.  The 
story  has  been  written  by  Frank  Hamil- 
ton Spearman,  a  novelist  who  has  attain- 
ed unusual  success. 

The  motif  of  the  plot  is  railroad  life. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  that  it  was  by 
the  writing  of  the  railroad  stories  that 
years  ago  Mr.  Spearman,  then  a  western 
banker,  first  broke  into  literature.  His 
town  was  a  division  point  on  one  of  the 
great  transcontinental  railroads  and  he 
there  came  in  touch  with  the  life  which 
gave  him  the  elements  of  successful  fic- 
tion, although  many  of  his  subsequent 
works  embody  entirely  different  ma- 
terials. 

Mr.  Spearman's  successes  number  a 
long  list  of  famous  novels,  among  them 
"Robert  Kimberly,"  "Whispering  .Smith" 


and  others.    His  "Held  for  Orders"  was 
a  thriller  that  got  the  attention  of  the 
thousands. 

The  story  of  "The  Girl  and  the  Game" 
threads  through  all  the  romantic  ramifi- 
cations of  American  railroading,  all  the 
way  from  the  impressive  office  of  the 
magnate  in  Wall  Street  to  the  smoky 
switch  j'ard  shanty  and  the  roundhouse 
and  out  across  the  great  rail  girded 
reaches  of  the  plains.  There  are  flashes 
of  society  life  and  the  heroine  flits 
through  contrasting  situations  of  rare 
dramatic  contrast. 


Helen  Holmes  is  preeminently  the  star 
for  this  sort  of  production.  She  has  long 
been  known  as  "the  railroad  girl."  Her 
father  was  a  railroad  man  of  prominence. 
She  was  born  and  reared  in  Chicago  and 
became  famous  there  as  an  artist's  model. 
She  was  the  model  for  "The  Santa  Fe 
Girl"  who  has  decorated  posters  all  over 
the  world.  She  is  an  exponent  of  the 
strenuous  life  of  the  open — athletic,  five 
feet  five,  brown  hair  and  eyes,  a  master- 
hand  at  the  wheel  of  an  auto,  motor  boat 
and  can  handle  a  yacht  like  a  born  soilor, 
it  is  said. 

A  special  studio  has  been  built  for  the 
Signal  Film  Corporation  for  the  produc- 
tion of  this  series.  This  is  said  to  be 
the  most  thoroughly  equipped  "railway 
studio"  in  the  world.  This  studio  backs 
right  onto  a  real  railroad.  A  station, 
water  tank,  roundhouse  and  various  other 
structures  necessary  have  been  built 
with  the  most  faithful  attention  to 
realism. 

"The  Girl  and  the  Game"  will  run 
through  fifteen  releases  of  two  reels  to 
each  installment. 


MORENO  TO  ESSAY  FIRST  STRAIGHT 
COMEDY  ROLE 

Antonio  Moreno,  a  prominent  Vitagraph 
leading  man.  will  essay  his  first  straight 
comedy  role  in  motion  pictures  in  the  forth- 
coming production  of  the  two-part  feature 
"A  'Model'  Wife,"  by  E.  Lawrence  Gibson, 
an  author  new  to  the  motion  picture 
fans. 

While  Mr.  Moreno  has  appeared  in  a  num- 
ber of  comedy  productions,  he  has  always 
played  a  serious  part. 

In  "A  'Model'  Wife,"  he  will  be  one  of 
the  comedians  playing  opposite  Lillian 
Walker,  who  heads  the  cast,  and  an  asso- 
ciation with  such  popular  \'itagraph  play- 
ers as  Louise  Beaudet,  L.  Rogers  Lytton 
and  Lillian  Burns,  under  the  direction  of 
Wilfrid  Xorth. 


FHANK  REICHER  DIRECTING  GAMBLING  SALON  SCENE  IN  "MR.   GREX  OF  MONTE  CARLO" 


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i  MARY  MILES  MINTER  AS  SHE  WILL  APPEAR  IN  "BARBARA 
i  FRIETCHIE,"  COMING  METRO  PRODUCTION 


BOSWORTH,  FOR  FIRST  TIME,  TAKES 
"RUFFIAN"  ROLE  IN  PICTURES 

For  the  first  time  in  his  long  and 
varied  career  before  the  motion  picture 
camera,  Hobart  Bosworth  plays  the  part 
of  a  ruffian.  And  he  does  dirty  political 
jobs  and  gets  in  jail  for  it — actually 
serves  time — the  same  as  all  other  bad 
men  who  do  those  petty  little  things  be- 
fore the  camera,  so  it  goes  without  say- 
ing that  Hobart  Bosworth  is  as  bad  a  bad 
man  as  he  is  a  good  good  man,  when  he 
plays  that  kind  of  a  part. 


HOBABT  BOSWORTH  IN  "TAINTED  MONEY" 

_  In  Other  words,  it  has  always  been  a 
little  fad  of  Mr.  Bosworth's  that  he  did 
not  relish  bad  men's  parts  in  motion 
pictures,  but  in  considering  the  story  of 
"Tainted  Money"  and  the  giving  away  in 
the  last  part  of  the  picture  of  $25,000 
m  one  flop  besides  lending  his  opponent 
a  large  sum  of  money,  Mr.  Bosworth 
thought  he  would  try  to  be  such  a  bad 
man  who  proves  to  be  a  pretty  good  man 
after  all. 

"Tainted  Money"  is  from  George  E. 
Hall's  story,  adapted  to  the  screen  by  F. 
McGrew  Willis  and  produced  by  Ulysses 


Davis  for  the  Universal  Film  Manufac- 
turing Company.  Supporting  Mr.  Bos- 
worth are  E.  Clark,  J.  Curtis,  William 
Mong,  Frank  Newberg,  W.  Harris,  Grace 
George  and  Jane  Novak,  whose  excellent 
work  in  this  picture  prompted  the  Uni- 
versal officials  in  choosing  her  to  play 
opposite  Hobart  Henley  in  "Graft,"  the 
new  Universal  serial.  "Tainted  Money" 
will  be  released  as  a  Broadway  Universal 
Feature. 


ROBERT  WARTTICK  TO  STAR  IN  "MARK 
TRUITT"  FOR  WORLD 

World  Film  Corporation  is  to  produce 
"The  Ambition  of  Mark  Truitt"  in  fea- 
ture film  form.  Henry  Russell  Miller  is 
the  author  of  this  book,  as  also  of  "The 
Man  Higher  Up." 

Robert  Warwick  will  play  the  leading 
role  in  this  production  of  "The  Ambition  of 
Mark  Truitt." 


KALEM'S  WINTER  PLANS  INCLUDE  THREE  SERIALS, 
AND  NUMBER  OF  NOVELTIES 


PLANS  are  now  being  completed  by 
the  Kalem  Company  for  the  winter 
activities  of  their  various  organizations. 
Several  original  manuscripts  have  been 
secured  and  work  arranged  far  into  the 
winter. 

Foremost  among  the  productions,  of 
course,  will  be  the  "Stingaree"  series. 
These  episodes  are  based  on  the  book  of 
the  same  name  by  E.  W.  Hornung,  the 
famous  creator  of  "Raffles,"  and  the  first 
release  date  on  this  series  has  been  an- 
nounced as  Wednesday,  November  24, 
with  two  reel  episodes  to  follow  on  each 
succeeding  Wednesday.  The  complete 
series  is  in  twelve  episodes. 

The  support  that  the  showing  of  this 
feature  will  have  in  the  publication  of 
the  fiction  stories  in  the  daily  newspapers 
also  speaks  well  for  the  reception  of  the 
series  by  the  general  public.  As  in  pre- 
vious series  produced  by  this  company, 
each  episode  will  tell  a  complete  story. 
Attractive  paper  has  been  designed  for 
lobby  display  and  several  unique  adver- 
tising features  arranged. 

The  "Hazards  of  Helen"  Railroad 
Series,  with  Helen  Gibson  in  the  title 
role,  the  Kalem  Company  plans  to  con- 
tinue indefinitely,  it  is  said.  The  titles 
of  those  planned  for  the  immediate 
future,  the  company  announces,  include 
"The  Dynamite  Train,"  "The  Girl  and  the 
Special,"  "The  Tramp  Telegrapher,"  and 
"The  Girl  on  the  Bridge." 

The  Kalem  Company  adds  that  the 
reception  given  to  the  first  episodes  of 
"The  Ventures  of  Marguerite"  promises 
to  make  that  series  a  rival  in  popularity 
to  "The  Hazards  of  Helen."  Never  has 
Marguerite  Courtot  been  given  a  role 
more  to  her  liking  than  that  of  the  hero- 
ine of  the  series.  One  of  the  big  features 
of  the  series  has  been  the  gowns  worn 
by  Miss  Courtot.  The  costumes  which 
the  star  wears  are  creations  by  Russek, 


of  Fifth  avenue,  and  by  many  he  is  con- 
sidered the  foremost  fashion  authority 
in  America. 

Supplementing  these  features,  Kalem 
also  has  arranged  for  a  number  of  nov- 
elties that  will  be  announced  later. 


BETTY  GRAY  AS  SOCIAL  COQUETTE 
IN  AN  IMP-UNIVERSAL 

Betty  Gray,  the  new  Imp-Universal 
leading  lady,  will  appear  as  a  social 
coquette  in  the  coming  Brinsley  Shaw 
picture,  "The  Social  Butterfly,"  in  which 
she  is  supported  by  Harry  Spingler  and 
Paul  Panzer. 

In  this  picture  Miss  Gray  will  wear  a 
smart  array  of  gowns. 


ATLAS  ENGAGES  MARCIA,  DANCER, 
FOR  COMEDY  SCENE 

The  Atlas  Company,  on  the  Associated 
Program,  have  just  completed  "And  He 
Came  Straight  Home,"  a  comedy  for  which 
they  engaged  Marcia,  a  well  known  dancer, 
to  dance  in  the  Egyptian  dance  of  this  pic- 
ture. 

The  Atlas  Company  are  at  present  work- 
ing on  a  new  comedy,  "The  Reverend  Slips 
a  Cog,"  and  have  rented  the  D.  &;  C.  Navi- 
gation Company's  steamer,  "City  of  De- 
troit." 


CLARA  KIMBALL  YOUNG  CAST  IN  "A 
MODERN  CAMILLE"  FOR  WORLD 

"A  Modern  Camille,"  a  forthcoming 
World  Film  feature  directed  by  Albert 
Capellani,  starring  Clara  Kimball  Young, 
is,  of  course,  based  upon  Alexandre  Du- 
mas' famous  play  of  the  same  name. 

Paul  Capellani,  the  director's  brother, 
is  to  play  the  part  of  Armand  Duval. 

Other  members  of  the  World  Film 
supporting  Miss  Young  are  Lillian  Cook, 
Robert  Cummings,  Edward  H.  Kimball 
and  William  Jefferson. 


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New  Laws  And  Court  Decisions 


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This  department  is  designed  to  keep  the  industry  informed  of  all  news  concerning  new  or  projected  laws,  Federal, 
State,  County  or  Municipal,  that  may  afject  the  business,  and  all  events  involving  any  branch 
of  the  trade  with  the  authorities  in  all  sections  of  the  country 

KEYSTONE  STATE  EXHIBITORS  RESENT  WHOLESALE 
"SPY"  SYSTEM  ORDERED  BY  GOVERNOR 


BETWEEN  5,000  and  6,000  employees  of 
the  State  of  Peimsjlvania  are  now  ar- 
rayed against  the  motion  picture  exhibitors 
of  that  btate,  to  trip  them  up  in  some  viola- 
tion of  the  censorship  law,  as  the  result  of 
Governor  Brumbaugh's  action,  recorded  in 
last  week's  Motion  Picture  News,  in  call- 
ing on  the  heads  of  all  departments  of  the 
State  government  to  direct  all  their  em- 
ployees to  act  as  "gumshoe"  detectives  to 
■'shadow"  the  picture  men. 

The  Governor's  order  has  created  a  sen- 
sation throughout  the  State,  even  outside 
motion  picture  circles.  It  has  been  the 
subject  of  newspaper  editorials  and  much 
other  comment. 

Exhibitors  resent  this  wholesale  espion- 
age that  has  been  established  over  their 
business,  not  so  much  because  they  fear 
they  may  be  arrested  and  fined  for  occa- 
sional violations  of  the  law,  but  because  the 
act  of  the  Governor  tends  to  reflect  on  the 
integrity  of  the  men  engaged  in  the  picture 
business  as  a  class,  and  to  cause  the  ex- 
hibitors to  be  looked  upon  by  the  public  in 
general  as  business  men  who  are  under 
suspicion  of  being  constantly  and  willfully 
breaking  the  law,  when  such  is  far  from 
being  the  truth  as  proved  by  the  small 
number  of  prosecutions  that  have  been  in- 
augurated since  the  censorship  law  went 
into  effect. 

Statisticians  at  the  State  Capitol  have 
figured  out  that  the  5,000  or  6,000  amateur 
detectives  put  on  the  trail  of  the  motion 
picture  men  through  the  Governor's  order, 
constitute  a  force  sufficient  to  have  an  aver- 
age of  two  or  three  men  scrutinizing  con- 
stantly every  motion  picture  theatre  in  Penn- 
sylvania. The  six  thousand  persons  on  the 
State's  payroll  include  among  others  the 
hundreds  of  employees  of  the  Highway 
Department  stationed  in  all  parts  of  the 
State ;  the  numerous  agents  and  attaches  of 
the  Health  Department  and  Board  of  Pub- 
lic Grounds  and  Buildings ;  all  the  Game 
and  Fish  Wardens;  the  entire  membership 
of  the  State  Constabulary ;  the  famous 
Pennsylvania  police  force  which  patrols 
every  corner  of  the  State ;  all  the  investi- 
gators of  the  factory  inspection  and  other 
bureaus  of  the  Department  of  Labor  and 
Industry;  to  say  nothing  of  thousands  of 
other  men  in  a  dozen  other  departments 
or  bureaus  scattered  throughout  every 
county. 

One  of  the  things  that  is  most  distaste- 
ful to  the  exhibitors  with  regard  to  the  new- 
order  is  the  fact  that  the  Governor  should 
single  them  out  as  the  one  class  of  business 


men  for  which  such  an  elaborate  system  of 
espionage  should  be  devisedi 

What  the  exhibitors  are  wondering  is 
why  the  tremendous  detective  force  should 
be  turned  loose  to  see  that  this  one  act  of 
the  Assembly  relating  to  motion  picture 
censorship  is  strictly  enforced,  when  for 
hundreds  of  other  acts  treating  of  far  more 
serious  offenses  than  those  dealt  with  in 
the  censorship  law,  only  the  ordinary  police 
precautions  are  deemed  necessary. 


SATURNALIA   OF  FILM  BANNING  IN 
BRITISH  COLUMBIA 

The  British  Columbia  censor  has  con- 
demned the  Kleine-Edison  feature,  "The 
Magic  Skin,"  which  had  been  brought  into 
Canada  from  the  Kleine  office  in  Seattle  by 
Manager  E.  R.  Fauser  of  the  Dominion 
Film  Exchange,  Vancouver.  Manager 
Pilling  of  the  Orpheum  theatre,  which  was 
to  have  shown  the  picture,  was  present 
while  it  was  being  run  off  for  the  benefit 
of  the  censor,  and  while  he  regretted  the 
loss  of  an  advertised  feature,  he  was  forced 
to  in  the  censor's  decision.  The  Van- 
couver exhibitors  have  on  more  than  one 
occasion  demonstrated  their  ability  in  a 
much  more  sensible  way  than  the  regularly 
constituted  official — with  less  hysteria,  per- 
haps, but  with  vastly  more  com.mon  sense. 

One  of  the  short  subjects  condemned  re- 
cently was  George  Ade's  "Fable  of  the 
Roystering  Blades,"  rejected  because  it 
"ridicules  the  temperance  movement." 

Following  are  some  of  the  official  reasons 
given  for  the  absolute  rejection  of  various 
pictures:  "offensive  to  organized  labor"; 
"vulgarity,  and  excessive  bar  room  scenes" ; 
"beating  a  lady  on  the  street";  "burlesque- 
ing  minister" ;  "gangster  story — criminal 
life" ;  "exploiting  insanity  for  comedy  pur- 
poses" ;  "offensive  to  .Anglican  Church" ; 
"excessive  drunkenness" ;  "intensely  vul- 
gar." Actually  hundreds  of  subjects  have 
been  condemned  in  British  Columbia  dur- 
ing the  past  year  on  just  such  pretexts  as 
these. 


"NATION"  RECEIVES  FOURTEEN  CUTS 
IN  KANSAS  CITY 

"The  Birth  of  a  Nation,"  when  shown 
to  the  members  of  the  Welfare  Board  of 
Kansas  City,  received  fourteen  cuts,  which 
however,  did  not  seem  to  hurt  much,  as 
the  play  went  over  big  to  capacity  houses 
on  Sunday,  October  24. 

The  papers  there  have  given  this  first 
two  dollar  picture  good  notices. 


CENSOR  BANS  "JUDY  FORGOT"  AS 
GERMAN  PROPAGANDA! 

"Judy  Forgot,"  one  of  the  .  Universal 
Features,  with  Marie  Cahill,  was  this  week 
condemned  by  the  censor  for  British  Col- 
umbia on  the  ground  that  the  picture  is 
part  of  a  great  "pro-German  propaganda" 
— probabl}'  as  sensible  as  most  of  the  rea- 
sons given  for  rejections  in  this  province, 
but  still  not  sensible  enough  to  satisfy  S. 
B.  Taube,  manager  of  the  Universal  ex- 
change in  V^ancouver,  who  had  the  film 
run  off  at  the  Colonial  theatre  before  a 
party  of  invited  guests. 

While  some  of  the  scenes  are  laid  in 
Heidelberg,  whither  the  bride  and  groom 
go  on  their  honeymoon,  nothing  which 
could  possibly  be  construed  as  being  pro- 
German  was  revealed ;  but  this  undoubted 
fact  did  not  deter  the  censor,  who  pro- 
fessed to  see  a  conspiracy  behind  the  mak- 
ing of  the  picture. 

Mr.  Taube  requested  permission  to 
change  one  or  two  sub-titles,  which  would 
transfer  the  scene  of  the  play  to  Switzer- 
land, but  was  notified  that  the  picture 
would  not  be  passed  under  any  conditions 
whatever. 

The  offer,  however,  indicates  how  little 
the  German  angle  had  to  do  with  the  work- 
ing out  of  the  story. 

An  effort  was  made  to  secure  another 
Universal  Broadway  picture  to  fill  in  the 
date  at  the  Colonial,  which  has  first  run 
on  these  subjects,  but  this  was  found  to  be 
impossible. 


INJUNCTION  AGAINST  AD  OF  FILM 
BASED  ON  "DAMAGED  GOODS" 

The  Mutual  legal  department  reports 
the  granting  of  another  injunction 
against  the  advertisement  of  a  film  en- 
titled "A  Victim  of  Sin,"  as  a  photo- 
drama  based  on  "Damaged  Goods." 
This  time  the  offending  film  appeared 
in  Detroit,  Michigan.  The  injunction 
there  is  against  J.  H.  Kunsky,  Inc.. 
David  Mundstuk  and  Jonas  Rosen,  who 
had  been  supplied  with  the  film  and  the 
infringing  advertising  matter  from  the 
New  York  concern  against  which  an  in- 
junction was  issued  recently  as  tojd  in 
MoTTOx  Picture  News. 

One  by  one  infringers  are  being  run 
down  and  prosecuted.  Action  in  these 
cases  is  brought  in  the  name  of  the 
America  Film  Company,  the  makers  of 
the  original  and  genuine  "Damaged 
Goods"  with  Richard  Bennett  and  his 
Broadway  cast  of  co-workers.  Actions 
are  pending  or  shortly  to  be  instituted 
in  a  number  of  other  cities. 


November  13,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


69 


EXHIBITORS'  OWN  INACTIVITY  MAY 
BRING  SUNDAY  CLOSING 

If  any  of  tlie  retail  grocers  who  are 
endeavoring  to  force  the  Milwaukee 
delicatessen  dealers  to  close  their  places 
of  business  on  Sunday  and  who  have 
already  had  a  law  passed  providing  that 
stores  of  this  nature  shall  be  closed  on 
Sunday  attempt  to  get  out  a  warrant  for 
any  of  those  stores  that  remain  open, 
Milwaukee  will  be  closed  tight  as  a  drum 
next  Sunday. 

This  was  the  edict  issued  by  District 
Attorney  VV.  C.  Zabel  when  questioned 
regarding  the  Sunday  closing  law  which 
becomes  effective  November  first.  Mr. 
Zabel  added  that  while  he  was  not  in 
favor  of  the  law,  yet  as  district  attorney 
he  must  see  that  it  is  enforced,  if  any 
citizen  complains  of  violations. 

"If  a  person  comes  into  my  office  and 
demands  a  warrant,  that  person  will  be 
accommodated."  he  said,  "but  at  the 
same  time,  I  shall  insist  that  the  prosecu- 
tion be  made  general." 

Inquiry  among  the  Milwaukee  down 
town  exhibitors  following  Mr.  Zabel's 
statement,  developed  the  fact  that  they 
had  been  laboring  under  the  opinion  that 
they  were  exempted  under  an  amend- 
ment, known  as  the  Heim  bill,  which 
exempted  theatres  from  the  Sunday 
closing  statute.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  this 
bill  was  defeated  in  the  State  Legislature 
last  session  through  the  lack  of  interest 
displayed  in  it  by  the  exhibitors  after  it 
had  been  favorably  reported  out  by  the 
committees 

Thanks  to  their  own  inactivity,  Mil- 
waukee exhibitors  are  now  facing  the 
prospect  of  having  their  houses  closed 
up  every  Sunday,  when  a  little  interest 
and  an  effective  lobby  sent  out  from  Mil- 
waukee when  the  bill  was  up  would  have 
prevented  an  action  of  this  kind. 


'FRISCO  CENSORS  UNDECIDED  ABOUT 
"DAMAGED  GOODS" 

The  Board  of  Censorship  of  San  Fran- 
cisco has  inspected  the  feature  produc- 
tion "Damaged  Goods,"  but  a  definite 
decision  as  to  whether  it  will  be  passed 
there  has  not  been  announced,  it  being 
understood  that  the  board  is  divided  on 
the  question. 

This  picture  was  shown  recently  to  a 
large  gathering  of  physicians  and  many 
of  these  have  come  forward  with  strong 
endorsements,  expressing  the  opinion 
that  the  showing  of  the  film  would  be 
productive  of  much  good. 

It  is  anticipated  that  the  Board  of  Cen- 
sorship will  decide  in  favor  of  allowing 
it  to  be  shown  on  account  of  its  educa- 
tional value. 


NEWARK  POLICE  CHIEF  BANS  FILM. 
THEN  APOLOGIZES 

.\  typical  illustration  of  the  arbitrari- 
ness of  a  certain  class  of  public  officials 
toward  moving  pictures,  was  provided  in 
Newark,  N.  J.,  last  week,  when  the  Chief 
of  Police  of  that  city  ordered  an  exhibitor 
not  to  show  the  widely-known  V-L-S-E 
feature.  "The  Blindness  of  Virtue." 

The  exhibitor  immediately  got  into 
communication  with  F.  F.  Hartich.  the 


manager  of  the  New  York  office's  booking 
department  of  the  V-L-S-E.  An  attor- 
ney himself,  and  supported  by  General 
Manager  Walter  W.  Irwin,  a  counsellor 
of  note,  Mr  Hartich  immediately  began 
to  make  things  hum. 

Among  the  preliminary  steps  to  legal 
action,  Mr.  Hartich  submitted  the  tribute 
to  the  great  moral  lesson  "The  Blindness 
of  Virtue"  teaches,  by  Rev.  Thomas  B. 
Gregory. 

He  also  pointed  out  the  inconsistency 
of  the  action  at  this  time,  in  view  of  the 
fact  that  "The  Blindness  of  Virtue"  had 
already  l)een  shown  in  Newark  eleven 
times.  Thereupon,  the  police  department 
apologized  to  the  exhibitor,  and  in- 
formed him  that  he  might  show  this  play 
at  any  time  that  he  desired. 


JERSEY  CITY  EXHIBITORS  PLANNING 
FIGHT  ON  SUNDAY  CLOSING 

Despite  appeals  and  protests  motion  pic- 
ture theatres  of  Jersey  City  have  been 
forced  to  remain  closed  Sundays  during 
October.  The  disappointed  public  addressed 
petitions  to  the  chief  of  police  and  the 
mayor,  but  to  no  purpose.  Motion  picture 
exhibitors  have  organized  a  Liberal  Sunday 
League,  and  its  president,  William  M.  Brit- 
ten, announced  that  plans  had  been  agreed 
upon  for  the  reopening  of  all  the  motion 
picture  playhouses  in  Jersey  City  on  the 
first  Sunday  in  November.  Exhibitors  be- 
lieve the  public  will  remain  loyal  to  them 
and  declare  their  willingness  to  provide  the 
Grand  Jury  with  the  necessary  material  for 
a  test  case. 

Mr.  Britten  said :  "I  can  promise  that 
motion  picture  theatres  in  Jersey  City  will 
be  opened  on  Sundays  in  the  very  near  fu- 
ture. I  was  not  in  favor  of  having  one 
management  assume  all  the  responsibility 
for  opening  on  Sunday  when  it  will  be  so 
much  more  effective  to  have  them  all  open 
at  the  same  time.  Knowing  public  senti- 
ment in  the  question  as  well  as  I  think  I 
do,  I  am  not  afraid  of  any  legal  action  the 
municipal  authorities  may  undertake." 


THE  decision  of  a  jury  in  the  suit  of  a 
colored  man,  Ernest  Jones,  to  re- 
cover $500  damages  from"  the  City  Square 
theatre,  Atlantic  City,  established  a 
precedent  of  much  interest  to  all  moving 
picture  patrons  as  well  as  exhibitors. 

The  suit  was  brought  in  the  District 
Court,  the  man  Jones  claiming  he  was 
refused  a  ticket  for  the  first  floor  on  ac- 
count of  his  color  and  therefore  entitled 
to  damages  under  the  old  Civil  Rights 
Act. 

Ed.  J.  O'Keefe,  proprietor  of  the 
theatre,  through  his  attorneys,  former 
Judge  C.  L.  Cole  and  H.  W.  Lewis,  de- 
nied this,  claiming  that  a  ticket  had  not 
been  asked  for  by  Jones  and  so  could  not 
have  been  refused.  However,  trouble 
had  been  previously  had  with  a  negro 
man  accompanying  Jones  and  so  tickets 
were  refused  him  on  this  account  and 
not  for  the  reason  of  color. 

Judge  Frank  Smathers  in  his  charge 
to  the  jurv  declared  that  a  ticket  was 
merely  a  license  and  was  revocable  at 


ATLANTA  FILM  FIRE  BRINGS  RIGID 
INVESTIGATION  OF  EXCHANGES 

Following  a  disastrous  film  exchange  fire 
on  October  16  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  in  which 
three  girls  lost  their  lives,  a  rigid  investi- 
gation of  all  Atlanta  exchanges  was  ordered 
in  special  resolutions  passed  by  the  gen- 
eral council  of  Atlanta  October  19  and  20. 
The  resolutions  provide  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  special  committee  of  three  mem- 
bers of  the  council.  They  will  make  a 
careful  investigation  of  all  film  exchanges. 

The  committee  will  look  into  the  advisa- 
bility of  requiring  a  special  building,  one 
story  in  height,  where  all  film  exchanges 
shall  be  quartered,  and  where  no  other 
business  of  any  kind  shall  be  allowed.  The 
city  electrician  has  reported  that  complete 
protection  from  fire  may  only  be  accom- 
plished by  segregating  each  exchange  in 
one  story  buildings. 

Two  points  were  brought  out  in  the  in- 
vestigation ;  that  the  city  laws  were  woe- 
fully inadequate  in  respect  to  fire  protec- 
tion at  film  exchanges ;  and  that  under  the 
existing  laws  no  blame  can  be  attached  for 
the  recent  catastrophe;  As  an  outgrowth  of 
the  recent  film  fire,  and  its  investigation,  it 
is  reported  that  an  alarming  number  of 
buildings  in  Atlanta,  where  large  numbers 
of  people  work,  are  in  just  as  dangerous 
condition  as  was  the  burned  building. 


ATLANTA    MINISTERS   DON'T  WANT 
"NATION"  SHOWN  THERE 

Atlanta  ministers,  represented  by  C.  B. 
Wilmer,  Dr.  Dunbar  H.  Ogden  and 
John  J.  Eagan,  have  registered  a  protest 
with  Mayor  James  G.  Woodward  against 
allowing  in  Atlanta  a  display  of  "The 
Birth  of  a  Nation." 

Mr.  Eagan  recently  saw  the  picture 
in  New  York  and  declares  that  in  his 
opinion  certain  parts  of  it  should  not  be 
displayed  in  the  South.  The  film  has 
been  booked  by  the  Atlanta  theatre  for 
December.  The  mayor  has  not  an- 
nounced what  he  will  do. 


the  pleasure  of  the  management  who  was 
not  compelled  to  assign  any  reason  for 
his  action,  but  must  refund  the  money 
paid.  However,  a  ticket  could  not  be 
revoked  on  the  ground  of  race  or  color, 
as  such  action  would  be  a  violation  of 
the  Civil  Rights  Act,  but  it  could  be  re- 
called for  any  other  reason  the  manage- 
ment chose  to  assign. 

After  witnesses  were  called  on  both 
sides,  the  case  went  to  the  jury  who 
after  a  short  deliberation  returned  a  ver- 
dict for  the  defendant,  O'Keefe. 

J.  J.  Crandall  and  Walter  Comer  were 
tbe  attorneys  for  the  colored  man. 

As  this  is  the  first  time  in  the  history 
of  Atlantic  City  that  a  court  has  been 
called  upon  to  lay  a  construction  on  the 
Civil  Rights  Act.  the  decision  was 
eagerly  awaited  by  a  number  of  New  Jer- 
sey lawyers. 

Theatre  managers  throughout  the  state 
followed  the  case  with  the  closest  atten- 
tion and  are  now  fully  posted  a.s  to  their 
legal  rights  in  such  matters. 


NEGRO  LOSES  SUIT  AGAINST  NEW  JERSEY  EXHIBITOR 
FOR  ALLEGED  DISCRIMINATION 


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Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


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In  and  Out  of  West  Coast  Studios 


By  J.  C.  Jessen 


special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

Los  Angeles,  Oct.  30. 

HARRY  COLEMAN,  musical  comedy 
comedian,  has  been  engaged  by 
"Pathe"  Lehrmann  for  work  in  L-Ko 
comedies  for  the  Universal,  and  another  new 
member  of  the  producing  staff  is  Lee  Law- 
son,  late  technical  director  at  the  Universal, 
who  has  a  similar  position  at  the  L-Ko 
studio. 

The  Harry  Edwards  and  Billy  Ritchie 
L-Ko  company  of  ten  players,  spent  the 
past  week  at  San  Diego  making  a  two-reel 
comedy.  An  attractive  California  bungalow 
was  built  across  the  street  from  the  L-Ko 
studio,  and  this  week  burned  to  the  ground 
for  scenes  in  the  two-reel  race-horse  comedy 
in  which  Billy  Ritchie  was  featured. 

Harry  Gardner,  writer,  newspaper  editor, 
song  publisher,  and  former  Indiana  repre- 
sentative, has  been  added  by  scenario  editor 
Hampton  Del  Ruth,  to  the  Mack  Sennett 


EGBERT  LEONARD  AND  ELLA  HALL  MAKING 
SCENES,    UNDER    DIFFICULTIES,    FOR  "THE 
CALL  OF  THE  CHRISTMAS  BORN" 

Keystone  corps  of  writers.  Mr.  Gardner 
has  had  a  very  wide  experience,  and  his 
former  success  lead  to  the  belief  that  he  will 
prove  a  valuable  man  in  the  new  position. 
Marta  Golden,  formerly  with  the  Keystone 
Company,  has  been  re-engaged  and  is  play- 
ing opposite  Fred  Mace  in  "A  Janitor's 
Wife's  Temptation." 

Rolin  Starts  New  Comedies  for  Pathe 

With  the  arrival  of  Hal  E.  Roach  this 
week  from  New  York,  production  of  addi- 
tional comedies  for  Pathe  was  taken  up  by 
the  Rolin  Film  Company  players.  While  in 
the  East  Mr.  Roach  made  arrangements  to 


change  the  name  of  these  comedies,  which 
in  the  future  will  be  known  as  "The  Lone- 
some Luke"  series.  Ten  of  the  series  have 
been  completed  and  shipped  to  the  Eastern 
laboratories,  and  others  will  be  made  with 
the  same  strong  cast. 

Police  of  Los  Angeles  and  surrounding 
cities  are  up  on  their  toes  because  of  a 
bold  daylight  bank  robbery  which  was  re- 
cently successfully  made,  and  the  bandits 
escaped  in  an  automobile  when  the  police 
thought  they  were  film  actors  making  scenes. 
This  week  the  vigilant  officers  swooped 
down  on  a  Lasky  company  making  scenes 
in  the  famous  Busch  sunken  gardens  in 
Pasadena  where  gambling  devices  of  all 
kinds  were  being  used,  and  it  required 
showing  the  camera  and  a  permit  from  the 
police  department  of  Los  Angeles  before 
the  Pasadena  officers  would  leave  the  scene. 
More  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  people 
took  part  in  these  scenes  which  were  for 
the  coming  Fanny  Ward  subject  being  made 
by  Cecil  B.  de  Mille.  Supporting  Miss 
Ward  are  Jack  Dean  and  Sessue  Hay- 
akawa.  In  this  Miss  Ward  is  introducing 
a  number  of  new  gowns  all  of  which  are 
worn  with  pantalettes  of  a  new  and  striking 
style.  The  actress  is  also  wearing  her  very 
remarkable  collection  of  diamonds. 

The  active  work  of  producing  the  Valeska 
Suratt  subject  was  taken  up  this  week 
by  Director  George  Melford.  The  com- 
pany spent  several  days  at  San  Diego  film- 
ing scenes  for  this. 

Anita  King  is  expected  to  arrive  home 
by  train  from  New  York  City  after  her 
continental  auto  trip  and  will  immediately 
be  starred  in  a  Lasky  production. 

Lasky  Adds  Cafe  for  Players 

One  of  the  recent  departments  added  at 
the  Lasky  studio  is  that  of  a  printing  plant 
where  all  titles  and  sub-titles  of  the  com- 
pany will  be  printed  together  with  a  quan- 
tity of  stationery,  blanks,  etc. 

Plans  are  being  made  now  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  weekly  newspaper  of  which 
Kenneth  McGaffey,  head  of  the  publicity 
department,  will  be  editor. 

Another  feature  added    at    the  Lasky 


studio  is  a  cafe  for  the  players,  and  es- 
pecially Cecil  B.  de  Mille,  who  is  now 
directing  day  and  night  producing  two 
photoplays  at  one  time,  and  does  not  have 
time  to  leave  the  lot  for  food.  The  most 
recent  subject  taken  up  was  that  of  featur- 
ing Edna  Goodrich  and  the  present  title 
is  "The  Woman  and  the  Law." 

The  Jesse  L.  Lasky  Company  has  been 
advised  that  the  attempt  of  the  Philadelphia 
censors  to  eliminate  several  scenes  of  "Car- 
men" has  been  set  aside  by  the  court  fol- 
lowing the  projection  of  the  picture  in  the 
court  room.  This  is  a  second  victory  of  the 
Lasky  Company  over  the  Philadelphia  cen- 


VICTOR  MOOEE  (Eig-ht)  IN  "CHIMMIE  FADDEK 
OUT  WEST"  (Lasky) 

sors  who  recently  ordered  eliminations 
from  "The  Secret  Orchard." 

An  exterior  set  representing  a  big 
theatre,  store  and  office  building  is  being 
erected  near  the  Keystone  studio  for  use 
in  a  coming  Arbuckle  subject.  This  build- 
ing is  to  be  the  supposed  home  of  a  big 
motion  picture  play  house  and  will  be 
burned  before  the  picture  is  finished.  Dur- 
ing the  week  the  subject  featuring  Charles 
Murray  and  "A  Janitor's  Wife's  Tempta- 
tion," in  which  Fred  Mace  does  the  cross- 
eyed act  through  about  one  hundred  scenes, 
completed  for  Keystone  release  on  the  Tri- 
angle program. 


A  TRIO  OF  VIEWS  FROM  "DOUBLE  TROUBLE,"  FINE  ARTS-TRIANGLE 


DOXrOLAS  FAIEBANKS  IS  FEATXTBED  IN  THIS  PEODtlCTION  AT  THE  KNICKEBBOCKEB.  NEW  TOEX 


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FLASHES  FROM  CHAPTER  29.  "THE  DIAMOND  FROM  THE  SKY,"  NORTH  AMERICAN-MUTUAL  SERIAL 


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IN  THE  ANCESTHAL  HOUSE— ARTHUa  AT  HOME  WITH  THE  GYPSIES— DE  VATJX  FROM  DOORWAY  WATCHES  VIVIAN 


William  Collier  arrived  at  the  Keystone 
studio  Sunday,  and  will  begin  work  as  soon 
as  a  suitable  story  for  him  can  be  pre- 
pared. 

Sam  Bernard  is  working  on  his  first  sub- 
ject, and  Weber  and  Fields  will  soon  com- 
plete their  second. 

Ford  Sterling  and  a  band  of  Keystonites 
are  making  a  colored  picture,  that  is,  all 
the  players  of  this  are  colored — by  the  use 
of  make-up — and  many  of  the  scenes  are 
laid  at  a  southern  darkey's  home. 

"Fall  of  a  Nation"  on  the  Stocks 

The  National  Drama  Corporation,  whose 
first  production  will  be  an  adaptation  from 
the  Thomas  Dixon  novel  "The  Fall  of  a 
Nation,"  has  been  busy  during  the  past 
week  selecting  players,  and  active  filming 
will  probably  be  taken  up  in  about  ten  days. 
Many  of  the  battle  scenes  will  be  staged 
at  the  old  Universal  ranch,  which  is  now 
being  laid  out  for  this.  Work  of  building 
the  studio  for  this  company  has  been  taken 
up  and  the  contractors  have  an  army  of 
workmen  busy. 

William  H.  Selig,  Director  Colin  Camp- 
bell, Tyrone  Power,  Kathlyn  Williams, 
Eugenie  Besserer  and  Guy  Oliver  are  at 
San  Francisco  for  a  week  where  the  first 
scenes  for  a  coming  five-reel  subject  are 
being  made. 

The  Kalem  comedy  company  finished  two 
single  reel  subjects  this  week,  one  being 
"Nearly  a  King,"  in  which  the  Kalem  pig 
played  in  the  star  role  of  a  sacred  pet. 
The  other  is  entitled  "The  Guardian  Angel," 
and  will  serve  to  introduce  two  new  Kalem 
players,  John  McDermid  and  Charles 
Mulgro,  who  support  Bud  Duncan  and 
Ethel  Teare.  Mulgro  has  been  connected 
with  the  profession  since  1857,  when  he  ap- 
peared first  as  a  comedian,  and  this  week 
was  so  full  of  "pep"  that  the  Director, 
William  Beaudine,  had  difficulty  in  securing 
a  good  portrayal  of  a  gouty  man.  The 
company  will  next  take  up  an  Italian 
story,  "The  Bandits  of  Macaroni  Moun- 
tain." 

Grifiith  Builds  Coast's  Greatest  Set 

For  eight  weeks  a  large  number  of  work- 
men have  been  engaged  on  the  making  of  a 
replica  of  scenes  of  Jerusalem  for  the 
Griffith  production,  "The  Mother  and  the" 
Law."    There  are  now  a  number  of  sets 


on  the  grounds,  many  of  which  have  been 
used,  but  the  largest  is  that  of  a  building 
requiring  twelve  scaffolds  in  order  that  the 
workmen  may  add  the  finish.  This  build- 
ing has  the  appearance  of  a  weather  stained 
one  of  stone.  It  is  about  a  thousand  feet 
in  length,  and  the  greater  portion  is  sixty 
feet  with  long  banner  poles  extending 
fifteen  feet  above  and  the  highest  portion 
is  seventy-five  feet.  Over  all  doors  and 
windows  there  are  decorations  in  keeping 
with  the  time  the  walls  or  buildings  that 
this  represents  were  made.  It  is  by  far  the 
greatest  set  ever  made  on  the  West  Coast. 

The  H.  C.  Matthews  company  producing 
for  the  Universal,  are  making  the  final 
scenes  for  the  three-reel  dramatic  fairy  tale 
"The  Secret  of  Happiness,"  the  theme  of 
which  is  that  contentment  is  the  secret.  The 
principal  parts  of  this  are  taken  by  Elsie 
Albert,  S.  W.  and  Kathrine  Griffith. 

A  second  enthusiastic  meeting  toward  the 
reorganization  of  a  social  club  of  photo- 
players  of  Los  Angeles  was  held  at  a  local 
cafe  during  the  past  week  and  proved  a  very 
enthusiastic  gathering.  At  this  additional 
plans  were  made  for  a  benefit  to  be  given 
entitled  "The  Weber  and  Fields  Jubilee,"  in 
which  all  the  stars  of  filmdom  now  in  Los 
Angeles  will  take  part.  Edna  Goodrich 
and  Fanny  Ward  have  made  application 
to  appear  in  the  chorus  and  Julia  Dean, 
Jane  Grey  and  a  number  of  other  stars  will 
take  part.  It  will,  if  present  plans  are  car- 
ried out,  be  the  greatest  all-star  entertain- 
ment given  in  America  with  the  possible  ex- 
ception of  the  Lamb's  Gambol  or  the  Titanic 
benefit.  The  question  of  a  name  for  the 
organization  was  discussed  at  length,  and 
a  committee  of  nine  were  finally  selected 
to  make  a  report  at  another  dinner  to  be 
given  during  the  coming  week.  The  most 
popular  names  suggested  were :  Los  An- 
geles Screen  Club,  The  Panto  Art,  and  The 
Photoplayers. 

"Recoiling  Vengeance"  a  Bison  Drama 

The  U  101  Bison  is  filming  "The  Recoil- 
ing Vengeance,"  a  drama  of  three  reels 
which  is  an  adaptation  of  a  story  by  Ed- 
ward Ferguson,  prepared  by  Ruth  Ann 
Baldwin,  manager  of  the  program  depart- 
ment of  the  Universal  West  Coast  studios, 
and  author  of  "Damon  and  Pythias"  and 
"The  Black  Box"  serial.  The  principals 
of  the  cast  for  this  are :    Edward  Hearn, 


Betty  Schade,  Rosita  Marstini,  Albert  Mill- 
er and  Caroline  Meredith.  The  action  of 
this  constitutes  the  adventures  of  a  con- 
fidential agent  of  the  British  Secret  Serv- 
ice, accompanied  by  his  wife,  while  deliv- 
ering important  papers  to  the  officials  in 
Afghanistan.  They  are  followed  by  for- 
eign spies,  and  foil  their  pursuers  time 
after  time,  until  the  British  are  finally 
thrown  into  a  cage  of  tigers.  The  mistreat- 
ment of  one  of  the  men  by  the  leader  of 
the  spies  results  in  their  lives  being  saved. 

Co-director  Horace  Davey  is  filming 
"Saved  by  a  Skirt,"  in  which  Neil  Burns 
proves  to  be  a  bride  elect  of  two  minutes' 
notice  by  donning  his  sister's  clothes  and 
marrying  his  sister's  sweetheart  where  a 
nearsighted  justice  of  the  peace  presides. 
This  action  was  necessary  that  the  sweet- 
heart marry  by  a  certain  time  in  order  to 
save  his  inheritance.  The  situation  is  ex- 
plained to  his  sweetheart  and  they  are 
secretly  married.  Ray  Gallagher  and  Billie 
Rhodes  are  the  other  members  of  the  cast. 

The  Al  Christie  Nestor  company  has 
finished  the  filming  of  "Wanted  a  Leading 
Woman,"  and  for  several  days  have  been 
creating  riots  of  fun  in  the  production  of 
a  Scottish  comedy  entitled  "Love  in  a  Kilt." 
The  scenes  for  this  are  laid  in  the  moun- 
tains and  lochs  of  Scotland,  and  Lee  Moran, 
Harry  Rattenberry,  little  Gus  Alexander 
and  Harry  Lyons  are  all  attired  in  the 
Scottish  garb,  while  Eddie  Lyons  plays  the 
role  of  the  American,  with  Betty  Compson 
as  a  Scottish  lass.  The  work  on  this  has 
kept  the  Universal  studio  in  a  turmoil  of 
merriment,  and  if  the  picture  is  one  half 
as  funny  on  the  screen  at  is  is  in  the  mak- 
ing, there  will  be  an  explosion. 

Al  Curtis  is  filming  "Dad's  Awful  Deed," 
a  Joker  comedy  in  which  the  hard-up  father 
attempts  to  induce  his  daughter  to  marry 
his  creditor,  all  of  which  brings  on  a  num- 
ber of  unusual  comedy  situations  that  Max 
Asher,  Lillian  Peacock,  Victor  Leroy  and 
William  Frahney  stage  in  a  laugh  making 
manner. 

First  "Graft"  Episode  Under  Way 

Director  Richard  Stanton  has  corralled 
all  the  grafters  or  at  least  a  very  big  num- 
ber, and  used  them  in  scenes  for  the  first 
of  the  fifteen  episodes  of  the  serial  en- 
titled "Graft."  Number  one  of  the  series 
starts  off  with  one  grafter  beirtg  killed,  and 


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SCENE  FHOM  CENTAUR  FEATURE,   "STANLEY  IN  STARVATION  CAMP, 
IN  "THE  DOUBLE  CROSS,"  CUB  COMEDY 


AND  GEORGE  OVEY 


as  there  are  fifteen  episodes  and  about  as 
Ijjiany  grafters,  it  is  presumed  tliere  will 
be  enough  to  last  through  the  entire  series. 
In  number  one,  which  is  of  an  introductory 
nature,  Dudley  Larnigan,  played  by  Wil- 
liam Sheerer,  district  attorney  of  New  York, 
is  put  to  death  in  a  mysterious  manner  by 
his  party's  opponents.  His  son,  Bruce, 
taken  by  Hobart  Henley  who  is  featured  in 
this  serial,  wins  a  campaign  to  succeed 
his  father  by  enrolling  the  women  of  the 
city  to  support  him,  and  he  starts  his  work 
of  avenging  the  death  of  his  father  by 
cleaning  out  the  ring  of  grafters  who  here- 
tofore have  in  a  measure  succeeded  in 
running  the  city.  Jane  Novak  appears  as 
the  daughter  of  the  head  of  an  insurance 
trust  who  takes  the  lead  in  organizing  the 
women  to  support  Larnigan  for  prosecuting 
attorney.  Glen  Wright  appears  as  the  or- 
ganizer of  the  grafters. 

Lynn  Reynolds,  who  for  the  past  ten 
weeks  has  been  directing  the  action  of  the 
Sydney  Ayres  company  in  one  and  two  reel 
subjects,  has  been  given  a  company,  and 
during  the  past  week  made  the  first  subject 
entitled  "Mary  Ann's  Decision"  of  one  reel, 
scenario  for  which  is  by  Harvey  Gates.  The 
principals  of  this  cast  were  Myrtle  Gon- 
zalez, Arthur  Shirley  and  Val  Paul.  With 
the  completion  of  this  subject,  Mr.  Shirley 
leaves  the  Universal  to  become  a  member 
of  the  National  Drama  Corporation  stock 
in  the  production  of  "The  Fall  of  a  Nation," 
and  will  be  succeeded  by  Fred  Church  as 
leading  man.  In  the  making  of  the  first 
subject  many  scenes  were  laid  on  Mt.  Wil- 
son, and  one  thrill  for  the  film  was  the 
fall  of  one  character  off  a  cliff.  The  dummy 
used  fell  far  down  into  a  ravine  where  it 
was  impossible  for  the  company  to  get  it, 
and  while  they  were  making  additional 
scenes  tourists  came  upon  it  and  sent  in 
a  call  for  the  coroner. 

Otto  Producing  "Undine" 

A  company  composed  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Smalley,  Marie  Walcamp,  Juan  de  la  Cruz, 
Charles  Hammond,  Ethel  Weber,  W.  H. 
Carr,  Frank  Forde,  Al  Zeigler  and  Frank 
Williams  have  gone  to  San  Francisco  to 
secure  scenes  for  the  five-reel  subject  "Hop," 
adapted  from  the  Rufus  Steele  story  en- 
titled "Dope."  Filming  will  be  commenced 
with  the  arrival  of  the  Japanese  boat  Nip- 
pon Maru,  which  comes  into  harbor  at  San 
Francisco  Tuesday.  The  author  resides  at 
San  Francisco,  and  the  story  is  written 
around  scenes  in  San  Francisco  Chinatown 
and  the  bay.     Arrangements  have  been 


completed  for  members  of  the  California 
State  Health  department,  police,  fire  and 
National  Secret  Service  officials  to  take 
part  in  this. 

Director  Henry  Otto  and  company  of 
about  forty  have  gone  to  the  Santa  Barbara 
Islands  for  a  stay  of  two  weeks  where  they 
will  make  the  exterior  scenes  for  the  film 
entitled  "Undine,"  an  adaptation  from  the 
story  of  the  same  name  by  De  La  Motte 
Foque,  prepared  by  Walter  Woods.  Ida 
Schnall,  one  of  the  best  known  swimmers 
of  America  who  holds  the  championship  for 
high  and  fancy  diving,  and  has  been  used 
for  a  model  by  the  country's  greatest  artists 
who  claim  she  has  a  perfect  figure,  has 
been  specially  engaged  to  play  the  name 
part  in  this.  Douglass  Girrard,  Edna 
Maison,  Carol  Stellson,  Caroline  Fowler, 
O.  C.  Jackson,  Josephine  Rice,  Thomas  Del- 
mar,  Elijah  Zerr  and  Jack  Nelson  constitute 
the  cast.  In  addition  twenty-five  of  the 
prettiest  diving  girls  of  California  beaches 
were  secured  to  take  part  in  this,  and 
accompanied  the  Otto  organization. 

The  Joseph  Franz  Western  Universal 
company  is  filming  "The  Voice  of  the  Wil- 
derness," written  by  Ben  Cohn.  This  is  a 
tale  of  early  cattle  ranch  days  of  the  West, 
wherein  the  son  lives  a  life  solely  to  avenge 
the  man  who  was  dishonest  and  injured 
his  father.  This  party  later  proves  to  be 
the  father  of  the  girl  the  son  loves,  and  a 
reconciliation  is  effected  wherein  the  dis- 
honest man  makes  ample  payment  for  his 
misconduct.  The  cast  for  this  includes 
William  Crinley,  Edythe  Sterling,  Sherman 
Bainbridge,  Norbert  Myles,  Rex  Roselli  and 
Lule  Warrenton. 


Filming  of  the  remainder  of  the  Terrence 
O'Rourke  series  adapted  from  the  Louis- 
Joseph  Vance  stories,  has  again  been  taken 
up  with  the  star  of  the  first  six  releases. 
Jack  Kerrigan,  in  the  name  part.  The  direc- 
tion is  in  charge  of  Otis  Turner,  and  the 
scenarios  are  prepared  by  F.  McGrew  Willis 
and  Walter  Woods.  Mr.  Kerrigan  has 
been  surrounded  by  a  notable  cast  of  char- 
acters which  includes  Bertram  Grassby, 
Maude  George,  Harry  Carter,  Lois  Wilson 
and  Eddie  Polo.  Number  seven  of  the 
series,  now  being  made,  deals  with  the  ad- 
venturer rescuing  several  from  the  hands 
of  brigands  in  Scondi,  an  oriental  kingdom. 
In  the  action,  the  queen  becomes  infatuated 
with  the  youth,  but  he  leaves  her  for  his 
former  sweetheart. 

"Colonel  Steele,  Master  Gambler,"  is  a 
character  story  with  Murdock  MacQuarrie 
playing  the  name  part.  This  consists  of 
fade-ins  that  tell  the  story  related  by  a 
gambler  of  early  days  and  his  adventures 
in  a  western  town.  Arthur  Moon  and  Edna 
Payne  are  prominent  in  the  cast. 

Potel  Joins  the  "Army" 

Victor  Potel  has  joined  the  army,  at  least 
for  the  subject,  "Safety  First  and  Last." 
In  this  he  is  a  member  of  the  Coyote  Centre 
Home  Guards.  When  assigned  to  the  duty 
of  delivering  important  messages  across  the 
Mexican  border,  he  and  his  companion  are 
attacked  by  a  Mexican  army,  and  he  suc- 
ceeds in  roping  them  all,  thus  proving  him- 
self a  regular  hero.  Lillian  Hamilton,  Jane 
Bernoudy  and  Albert  Morrow  have  been 
made  members  of  this  company,  which  is 
under  the  direction  of  Roy  Clements. 

A  company  of  players  from  Universal 
City  have  spent  the  past  week  at  Bear  Lake 
Valley  making  exteriors  for  the  Canadian 
Northwest  story,  "Bloodhounds  of  the 
North,"  which  features  Herbert  Rawlinson. 
with  Agnes  Vernon  playing  the  opposite 
lead.  The  day  the  company  left  Bear 
Lake  Valley,  one  of  the  first  snow  storms 
of  the  season  began,  and  for  a  time  it  was 
feared  they  would  not  be  able  to  get  to  the 
foothills.  The  altitude  here  is  approxi- 
mately six  thousand  feet  above  sea  level. 

The  Robert  Leonard  and  Ella  Hall  com- 
pany has  spent  the  past  week  in  the  vicinity 
of  Arrowhead  Hot  Springs  on  a  holiday 
story  entitled  "The  Call  of  the  Christmas 
Born."  In  the  making  of  this,  they  pene- 
trated far  into  the  foothills  and  secured 
some  wonderful  mountain  and  wilderness 


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effects,  which  caused  Director  General 
Henry  McRae  to  send  the  company  back 
for  several  additional  subjects  to  be  made 
in  the  same  vicinity. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carter  DeHaven  have  re- 
turned to  Universal  City  from  New  York 
for  a  stay  of  one  year,  as  the  result  of  a 
contract  recently  made  with  President  Carl 
Laemmle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  DeHaven  will  be 
remembered  as  stars  in  the  five-reel  Broad- 
way feature,  "The  College  Orphan."  They 
will  be  featured  in  comedy  dramas. 

Wiltermood  at  Universal  City 

Frank  M.  Wiltermood,  formerly  scenario 
writer  at  the  Universal  and  Balboa  studios, 
has  been  added  to  the  Universal  City 
scenario  staff.  The  Universal  company 
under  the  direction  of  Rupert  Julian,  is 
spending  several  days  in  the  San  Gabriel 
canyon  filming  scenes  for  "The  Gilded 
Youth." 

"Transgression"  is  the  title  of  a  story 
dealing  with  life  in  New  Yorlc  art  circles, 
written  by  F.  McGrew  Willis,  and  being 
produced  by  Leon  Kent.  The  principals 
in  this  are  Mina  Cunard,  Malcolm  Blevins 
and  Jack  Livingston. 

The  last  few  scenes  for  the  subject 
"Tainted  Money"  of  five-reels  featuring 
Hobart  Bosworth,  were  made  the  latter 
part  of  last  week,  and  this  week  the  filming 
of  "Two  Men  of  Sandy  Bar,"  a  well  known 
Bret  Harte  story,  was  taken  up  under  the 
direction  of  Lloyd  B.  Carleton,  who  has 
just  become  a  member  of  the  Universal 
staff  of  directors.  Mr.  Carleton  was  for 
a  number  of  years  with  th ;  L'lbin  Company, 
and  for  the  past  six  months  has  teen  direct- 
ing at  the  Seliz  Zoo.  The  scenario  for  this 
story  was  adapted  by  Olga  Printilau. 

Calder  Johnston,  formerly  manager  of 
the  scenario  department  of  Universal  City, 
is  now  serving  in  the  same  capacity  at  the 
American  studio  at  Santa  Barbara. 

President  F.  M.  Marion,  of  the  Kalem 
Company,  -nd  Mrs.  Marion,  are  in  Los  An- 
geles spending  several  days  at  the  two 
studios  of  the  company,  one  located  at 
Hollywood,  where  the  "Ham"  comedies  are 
made,  and  the  other  at  Glendale,  from  which 
studio  emanates  the  "Hazards  of  Helen." 
"The  Mystery  of  the  Grand  Hotel"  series, 
and  where  the  "Stingaree"  series  is  now 
being  made. 

Kalem  to  Continue  Western  Companies 

The  appearance  of  an  ,  dvertisement  in  a 
trade  paper  offering  the  Hollywood  and 
Glendale  studios  for  sale  has  caused  many 
rumors  to  the  effect  that  the  Western  pro- 
ducing companies  would  be  disposed  of,  but 
while  here,  Mr.  Marion  stated  that  such 
was  not  the  intention  of  the  company. 

A  very  novel  introduction  has  been  filmed 
for  the  "Stingaree"  series  under  the  direc- 
tion of  James  Horne  at  the  Glendale  studio 
which  consists  of  Stingaree,  played  by  True 
Boardman,  when  he  becomes  tired  of  living 
a  clubman's  life,  shooting  up  the  beautiful 
dining  hall  at  a  London  club.  With  a  six- 
shooter  he  breaks  the  fancy  plates  on  a 
plate  rail  about  the  room,  and  as  the  shat- 
tered pieces  fall  large  letters  appear  which 
spell  the  title  of  the  subject — "Stingaree." 

The  company  has  just  returned  from  the 
desert,  where  they  completed  the  first  four 
episodes  of  the  series,  and  are  now  begin- 
ning on  the  fifth,  which  is  entitled,  "Bush 
Ranger  at  Bay."  Frank  Jonasson,  character 


actor  of  the  company,  was  badly  injured 
when  a  number  of  the  forty  horses  used  in 
the  desert  scenes  stampeded  and  ran  through 
a  small  canyon  in  which  he  was  enacting 
a  prospector's  scene. 

An  interesting  fact  in  connection  with  the 
selection  of  True  Boardman  to  play  the 
name  part  in  this  series  is  the  fact  that  this 
book  is  one  of  the  first  that  Mr.  Boardman 
remembers  reading  when  a  boy,  and  it  has 
always  remained  a  favorite  with  him.  In  his 
boyhood  days  he  played  Stingaree  in  his 
back  yard.  When  he  went  on  the  stage  he 
had  visions  of  playing  this,  and  ofttimes 
studied  the  stories  with  the  view  of  drama- 
tizing them.  When  assigned  the  part,  Mr. 
Boardman  was  greatly  pleased,  and  has 
since  shown  his  intimate  acquaintance  with 
the  story  in  the  portrayal  of  the  role.  In 
this  connection  it  may  be  added  that  this 
week  the  little  son  of  Mr.  Boardman,  True 
Boardman,  Jr.,  played  the  part  of  a  runaway 
boy,  a  Stingaree,  in  the  current  number  of 
the  "Hazards  of  Helen"  series  entitled  "The 
Girl  Who  Dared."  In  this  the  boy  takes  a 
train  from  his  home  town,  and  the  girl 
operator  learning  of  this  rides  a  horse  to 
catch  the  train,  and  succeeds  in  swinging 
on  to  the  steps  from  the  horse's  back. 

Enid  Markey  Hurt  In  Film 

Three  times  in  as  many  weeks  has  Enid 
Markey,  Ince  leading  woman^,  met  wit^i 
mishap.  Her  latest  accident  occurred,  this 
week,  while  she  was  was  enacting  another 
big  scene  with  Frank  Keenan  and  a  com- 
pany of  100  players  in  the  current  Ince- 
Triangle  feature  in  which  Keenan  is  to  be 
starred.  Miss  Markey  is  playing  the  part 
of  a  military  commander's  daughter  who 
barely  escapes  suffering  ignominies  at  the 
hands  of  a  despot  who  covets  her.  She 
seeks  shelter  in  a  convent,  where,  with  the 


HELEN   WAKE    IN    A   STRIKING    POSE  FHOM 
"CROSS-CUEEENTS"  (Fine  Arts— Triangle) 


nuns  and  other  refugees,  she  attempts  to 
prevent  the  entrance  of  the  leader  and  his 
mob.  The  men  succeed  in  breaking  in, 
however,  and  it  was  during  the  enactment 
of  this  thrilling  scene  that  Miss  Markey 
was  injured.  As  the  barbarians  rushed 
passed  the  door.  Miss  Alerkey  was  carried 


off  her  feet  and  thrown  to  the  ground. 
Before  she  could  arise,  a  half  dozen  men 
had  trampled  upon  her  during  the  excite- 
ment. Prostrate,  she  was  carried  to  her 
dressing  room  and  there  revived.  She  was 
taken  home  for  a  two-day  rest. 

Work  was  commenced  this  week  on  the 
erection  of  an  immense  set  on  the  first 
completed  stage  at  the  new  Ince  Culver 
City  studios.  This  when  completed  will  de- 
pict the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  and 
will  be  used  for  many  of  the  biggest  and 
most  important  scenes  of  the  current  pro- 
duction in  which  H.  B.  Warner  will  be 
starred. 

In  order  that,  in  future,  he  will  not  be 
compelled  to  cast  about  for  a  suitable  place 
in  which  to  make  a  final  inspection  of  his 
productions,  Thomas  H.  Ince  this  week 
signed  a  lease  which  gives  him  the  ex- 
clusive right  to  the  Brooks  theatre,  some- 
times known  as  the  Mozart,  in  Los  Angeles. 
The  theatre  will  be  used  each  week  for 
the  showing  of  the  Ince-Triangle  features 
before  they  are  shipped  to  New  York  for 
distribution.  These  exhibitions  will  not  be 
public,  but  will  be  viewed  only  by  Ince 
himself,  and  his  staff  of  assistants.  The 
actual  work  of  cutting  and  assembling  of 
the  Ince  films  is  done  in  the  Inceville  fac- 
tpry,  but  at  the  studio  there  are  no  ade- 
quate facilities  for  proecting  the  pictures 
with  the  full  and  original  musical  accom- 
paniment, which  has  proven  ,  such  a  tre- 
mendously valuable  asset  of  the  Triangle 
plays.  Hereafter,  a  twenty  piece  orchestra 
will  render  the  especially  written  music. 

Jackie  Saunders  as  "Ugly  Duckling" 

At  the  Horkheimer  Balboa  studio  a  fea- 
ture picture  entitled  "The  Ugliest  Girl  in 
The  World,"  is  being  made,  and  in  this 
Jackie  Saunders  will  be  featured  in  the 
name  part.  It  is  understood  that  it  will  be 
necessary  for  Miss  Saunders  to  disguise 
herself  for  this  part,  but  in  the  end  the 
make-up  may  be  removed  as  the  duckling 
becomes  the  most  beautiful  bird. 

E.  D.  Horkheimer,  secretary  and  treasur- 
er of  the  Balboa  company,  has  been  success- 
ful in  buying  a  million  one  cent  green  post- 
age stamps  used  during  the  expositions 
here,  which  bear  the  picture  of  Balboa,  dis- 
coverer of  the  Pacific  Ocean,  after  whom 
the  company  is  named.  Since  these  stamps 
were  first  issued,  the  Balboa  company  has 
been  using  them  exclusively,  and  with  this 
supply  will  be  able  to  do  so  for  many 
moons.  In  this  way  Mr.  E.  D.  Horkheimer 
successfully  picked  off  a  nice  bit  of  adver- 
tising unintended  by  Uncle  Sam.  At  the 
close  of  the  expositions  all  Balboa  stamps 
will  be  withdrawn  from  sale  in  various 
parts  of  the  country  to  be  sold  to  the  Bal- 
boa company  at  Long  Beach. 

Tom  Chatterton,  playing  opposite  Direc- 
tress Cleo  Madison  in  the  five  part  subject, 
"Live  and  Let  Live,"in  staging  a  too  real- 
istic scene  lost  two  teeth.  The  dentist's 
bill  was  seventy-five  dollars,  but  Director 
Henry  McRae  believes  they  got  a  bargain 
in  the  realistic  scene  which  was  presented. 

Sturgeon  Starts  New  Blue  Ribbon 

The  Blue  Ribbon  feature,  "God's  Country 
and  the  Woman,"  to  be  produced  by  direc- 
tor R.  S.  Sturgeon,  will  be  taken  up  shortly, 
and  Nell  Shipman  has  been  engaged  to 
play  the  name  part.    Opposite  her  will  be 


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MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


Vol.  12.   No.  19. 


Wm.  Duncan,  featured  in  "The  Chalice 
of  Courage"  and  other  Vitagraph  features, 
who  has  spent  considerable  time  in  Alaska. 

In  the  filming  of  "The  Squared  Account," 
a  one-reel  subject  just  finished  under  the 
directiop  of  William  Wolbert  at  the  Vita- 
graph  studio,  with  a  cast  of  George  Kunkel, 
Jack  Mower,  and  others,  Otto  Lederer  was 


WEBER     AND     FIELDS     IN     "THE     BEST  OF 
ENEMIES"  (Keystone-Triangle) 

injured  to  the  extent  of  a  bone  in  his  arm 
being  fractured.  He  completed  the  picture 
notwithstanding  the  injury.  Director  Wol- 
bert is  now  making  a  three-reel  subject 
entitled  "Paloma,"  written  by  Daisy  Eloise 
Smith.  George  Stanley  has  been  cast  to 
play  the  part  of  the  old  Spaniard  in  this. 

The  third  Vitagraph  company  under  the 
direction  of  Dave  Smith,  is  now  filming 
■'The  Return  of  Eli  Judson,"  with  a  cast 
composed  of  George  Holt,  Jack  Wetherby, 
George  Kunkel  and  Corrine  Griffith. 


and  also  filmed  by  Mr.  Davis,  was  "The 
Little  Sister  of  the  Poor,"  with  Miss  Bil- 
lington  as  Sister  Teresa,  Miss  Wolcott  as 
La  Belle  Corinne,  a  woman  with  a  past; 
Mr.  Bradbury  in  the  lead  as  Bert  Wilson ; 
Jay  Morley  as  Duval,  an  admirer  of  La 
Belle.  It  is  a  story  of  contrast,  of  good  and 
evil,  of  a  nun  and  a  woman  of  the  world. 
The  California  building  at  the  exposition 
was  used  in  a  portion  of  the  filming,  the 
handsome  entrance  being  utilized  as  a 
church  exterior. 

Jay  Morley  has  severed  his  connection 
with  the  Lubin  company  and  has  returned 
to  Los  Angeles. 

The  aeroplane  which  recently  fell,  killing 
Lieut.  W.  R.  Taliaferro,  attached  to  the 
North  Island  Aviation  School  of  the  First 
Aero  Corps  of  the  United  States  Army, 
had  been  used  a  few  days  before  by  the 
Lubin  company  in  ill  strating  a  sandstorm 
on  the  desert.  The  scene  was  set  on  the 
aviation  field  and  the  aeroplane  was  held 
fast  while  the  motor  was  run  at  full  speed. 


NEWS  OF  THE  WEEK  IN  AND  ABOUT 
SAN  DIEGO 

Special  to  Motion  Picture  News 

San  Diego,  Cal.,  Oct.  30. 
One  of  the  Lubin  companies,  under  di- 
rection of  Edward  Sloman,  with  B.  C. 
Hayward  at  the  camera,  has  been  busy  on  a 
three-reeler  written  by  Julian  Lamothe,  en- 
titled "The  Bond  Within,"  with  L.  C.  Shum- 
way,  George  Rauth,  Adda  Gleason  and 
Adelaide  Bronti  in  the  cast.  In  a  portion 
of  the  scenes  some  of  the  old  adobe  ruins 
and  houses  in  Old  Town,  as  the  first  set- 
tlement of  San  Diego  is  known,  were  util- 
izzed.  There  was  also  a  place  for  quite  a 
group  of  young  Mexican  boys.  The  story 
is  built  around  the  experiences  of  Mexican 
refugees. 

Melvin  Mayo  has  been  directing  two  one- 
reel  pictures,  both  written  by  Julian  La- 
mothe. One  of  them  was  "The  Dusty  Gen- 
tleman," with  Ronald  Bradbury  playing  the 
lead,  Francelia  Billington,  the  poor  relation, 
Helen  Wolcott,  the  proud  daughter,  Jay 
Morley  from  the  city,  in  the  heavy,  and 
William  J.  Spencer  as  the  father.  In  the 
play  a  trick  effect  was  worked  with  the 
camera,  operated  by  D.  L.  Davis,  which  will 
he  found  to  be  a  new  thing  in  dissolving 
scenes. 

The  other  play  directed  by  Mr.  Mayo 


thus  stirring  Up  a  real  sand-storm  over  the 
entire  scenery  of  the  company. 

The  Dudley  Motion  Picture  Company  is 
now  at  work  at  its  studio  in  National  City, 
and  has  been  busy  with  some  of  Peter  B. 
Kyne's  stories,  the  first  filmed  being  "The 
Land  Just  Over  Yonder."  The  other  day 
Manager  Leonard  Coop  was  at  work  on  a 
play  involving  a  labor  problem,  and  for 
one  of  the  scenes  he  needed  a  large  number 
of  old,  dirty  overalls.  In  order  to  get  these 
he  went  among  a  gang  of  laborers  and  of- 
fered to  give  them  new  pairs  for  old,  and  it 
was  sometime  before  he  could  make  them 
believe  he  was  not  insane. 

Carlos  Lescale  is  putting  on  at  the  Gaiety 
theatre  ten  thousand  feet  of  film  depicting 
scenes  in  Mexico  in  the  past  few  months. 

On  Sunday,  the  31st  inst..  La  JoUa,  a 
pleasure  resort  and  suburb  of  this  city,  will 
observe  Lubin  Day,  with  the  members  of 
the  Lubin  company  at  Coronado  as  the 
guests  of  honor.  A  special  train  will  be 
used.  .\llen  H.  Wright. 


Vitagraph  Employees  Dance  All  Night  in  2nd  Ball 

Annual  Event,  Held  to  Raise  Money  for  Sick  Benefit  an4  Hospital  Fund,  Brings  Out  1,000 
at  McLaughlin's  Bayside  Casino,  Sheepshead  Bay 


MOST  recent  of  the  Vitagraph  Company 
of  America's  pleasant  social  affairs 
was  the  second  Annual  Benefit  Ball  of  the 
Vitagraph  employees,  held  at  McLaugh- 
lin's Bayside  Casino,  Sheepshead  Bay, 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  Wednesday  evening, 
October  27. 

To  quote  from  the  introduction  of  the 
souvenir  program,  "The  Vitagraph  em- 
ployees have  created  for  themselves  a  sick 
benefit  and  hospital  fund  which  is  largely 
dependent  on  this  annual  affair," — "we  sin- 
cerely thank  you  for  your  kind  aid  and 
hope  that  the  second  annual  benefit  ball  will 
linger  in  your  happiest  memories." 

That  is  the  reason  for  the  ball  and  there, 
too,  is  its  anticipated  effect  on  some  ten 
hundred  persons  who  made  merry  in  the 
large  Casino.  Dancing  was  as  usual  the 
main  event,  if  not  the  only  event  of  the 
evening  outside  of  a  few  songs  rendered  by 

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the  Vitagraph  quartette,  comprised  of  Don- 
ald McBride,  Edward  Dunn,  Frank  Brule 
and  John  Mason. 

The  songs  were  greeted  enthusiastically, 
but  strange  to  tell,  the  four  songbirds  ab- 
solutely refused  to  give  an  encore.  So 
that  was  the  last  of  the  singing  until  later 
in  the  evening  Hughie  Mack  took  it  upon 
himself  to  burst  into  limpid  song. 

Of  cups  there  were  none,  but  this  did 
nothing  to  lessen  the  ardor  of  the  dancers. 
Even  Sam  Trigger  was  seen  tripping  the 
light  fantastic,  while  Thomas  Howard,  the 
aggressive  secretary  of  the  Motion  Picture 
Exhibitors  League  of  New  York,  honored 
and  was  honored  by  many  partners. 

Those  representing  the  histrionic  talent  of 
the  Flatbush  studio  were,  Anita  Stewart, 
Dorothy  Kelly,  Lillian  Walker,  George 
Baker,  Van  Dyke  Brooke,  Wilfred  North, 
Theodore  Marston,  Paul  Scardon,  C.  Van 
Deusen,  Charles  Eldridge,  James  Morrison. 
Albert  Roccardi,  Joseph  Kilgour,  Anders 
Randolph,  William  Shea,  Garry  McGarry, 
Stanley  Dark,  Kate  Price,  Eulalie  Jensen. 
\  irginia  Pearson,  Leah  Baird  and  A.  F. 
Beck,  Flora  Finch,  Frankie  Mann  and 
Donald  Hall,  Ethel  Corcoran,  Carolyn 
Birch.  Katharine  Lewis,  Mary  Maurice, 
Donald  MacBride,  Arthur  Cozine,  William 
and  Edward  Dunn.  Hughie  Mack,  Mother 
Anderson,  Alice  Lake,  Josephine  Earle, 
Beatrice  Anderson,  Ethel  TuUy,  Edward 
Elkas,  Jack  Evans  and  Frank  Bunny. 

Dick  Leslie,  Vitagraph's  able  make-up 
man,  was  on  hand.  Leslie  also  made  up 
the  attractive  souvenir  program,  containing 
photographs  of  practically  every  member 
of  the  studio.  Sam  Spedon  and  John  W. 
Grey  represented  publicity-  and  advertising, 
respectively. 

Others  were  David  Wallace  and  Charles 
L.  Giegerich  of  the  Morning  Telegraph; 
Harry  Havens  and  Rose  Dugan,  of  the  Mo- 
tion Picture  Mail;  George  Blaisdell,  of  the 
Moving  Picture  World;  Charles  Condon, 
of  Motograpliy.  and  Peter  Milne  of  Motion 
Picture  News. 


November  13,  1915. 


MOTION    PICTURE  NEWS 


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CAST  FOR  "THE  OTHER  GIRL,"  RAVER 
FILM,  NEARLY  PICKED 

Director  of  Productions  Percy  Winter 
of  the  Raver  Film  Corporation  is  rapidly 
making  the  last  few  selections  of  the  cast 
of  five  hundred  for  "The  Other  Girl,"  by 
Augustus  Thomas. 

In  addition  to  James  J.  Corbett,  Paul 
Gilmore  and  Becky  Bruce,  President 
Raver  announces  the  engagement  of 
Frances  Thompson,  Mona  Ryan,  Horace 
Vinton,  Mortimer  Martini,  Louis  Thiel, 
Rawland  RatclifTe,  Harry  Redding,  Ten 
Eyck  Clay,  Zola  Telmzart  and  Lizzie 
McCall. 


Lasky  Obtains  Rights  to  All  Works  of  Mark  Twain 

Negotiations  with  Harper  Brothers  and  President  of  Mark  Twain  Company  Terminated 
Successfully  by  Goldfish — Prepare  to  Send  Company  Down  Mississippi  for  Locations 


ANNOUNCEMENT  that  all  the  works 
of  the  late  Samuel  Langhorne 
Clemens  (Mark  Twain)  had  been  ob- 
tained for  motion  pictures  has  been  made 
by  Samuel  Goldfish,  executive  head  of 
the  Jesse  L.  Lasky  Feature  Play  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Goldfish  said  that  Cecil  B. 
DeMille,  director-general  of  the  Lasky 
company,  would  personally  supervise  the 
picturization  of  these  great  pieces  of 
American  literature. 


Uncle  Sam  Calls  Aid  of  Films  to  Show  Work  in  West 

Department  of  Interior,  as  Part  of  Reclamation  Service,  Takes  40,000  Feet  of  Scenery  for 
Public  to  See  Extent  of  Beauty  in  Our  National  Parks 


AS  part  of  the  extensive  reclamation 
work  at  present  being  carried  on  by 
the  United  States  Department  of  the  In- 
terior, approximately  forty  thousand  feet 
of  film  have  been  taken,  showing  the  re- 
markable scenic  beauty  of  the  large  na- 
tional parks  lying  within  the  confines  of 
the  United  States. 

The  six  largest  of  the  parks  in  the  west, 
including  Yellowstone  and  the  Rocky 
Mountain  reserve,  are  comparatively  un- 
known to  the  greater  part  of  the  population 
of  the  country.  Stephen  T.  Mather,  as- 
sistant to  Secretary  Lane  of  the  Interior 
Department,  has  realized  this  deplorable 
lack  of  topographical  knowledge  on  the 
part  of  the  majority  of  the  populace,  and 
consequently  has  made  it  possible  for  the 
picture  to  be  taken. 

Under  the  active  direction  of  Herford  T. 
Cowling,  chief  photographer  of  the  U.  S. 
Reclamation  Service,  the  pictures  have  been 
procured  and  assembled.  The  reels  show 
almost  unknown  scenery  of  the  United 
States.  All  the  parks  offer  unusual  oppor- 
tunities for  the  compilation  of  a  scenic  of 
unlimited  educational  value.  Mr.  Cowling 
believes  that  the  pictures  will  meet  with 
widespread  interest  as  he  has  visited  points 
of  heretofore   unpictured   interest  to  the 


average   person    throughout   the  country. 

Mr.  Cowling  was  recently  in  New  York 
negotiating  with  the  heads  of  several  prom- 
inent film  distributing  concerns  to  ascertain 
which  would  be  the  most  suitable  medium 
for  the  distribution  of  the  pictures. 

As  yet  no  definite  announcement  has 
been  made,  either  by  Mr.  Cowling  or  by 
any  of  the  companies  with  which  he  has 
been  in  conference,  but  in  a  short  time  it  is 
to  be  expected  that  a  large  distributing 
organization  will  close  contracts  with  the 
government,  whereby  they  will  receive 
the  rights  to  handle  the  pictures. 

In  this  way  it  is  Mr.  Mather's  intention 
to  stimulate  the  interest  of  the  American 
public  in  the  realization  of  the  grandeur  of 
the  scenery  contained  in  their  own  coun- 
try. It  is  hoped  that,  influenced  by  the 
pictures,  travelers  will  desire  to  see  Amer- 
ica first  instead  of  neglecting  this  country 
for  Europe. 

As  American  scenics  are  lamentably 
scarce,  there  is  small  doubt  that  great  suc- 
cess will  meet  with  Mr.  Mather's  plan. 
Mr.  Cowling,  a  photographer  of  promi- 
nence, believes  that  the  films  will  make  at- 
tractive fillers  for  a  picture  program,  as 
they  are  equally  as  beautiful,  well  photo- 
European  scenic. 


German  Side  of  the  War"  Makes  Record  Run 


Chicago  "Tribune"  Subject,  Playing  to  Daily 
Amounting  to  $14,972,  at  Forty-fourth  Street 

THE  success  of  the  "German  Side  of 
the  War,"  the  Chicago  Tribune  pic- 
tures, offered  by  the  Public  Service  Film 
Company,  1482  Broadway,  New  York,  has 
resulted  in  numerous  applications  for 
booking  throughout  the  country. 

These  pictures  ran  to  record-breaking 
business  at  the  Forty-fourth  street  the- 
atre. New  York  City,  and  caused  favor- 
able comment  among  patrons  of  the 
theatre.  As  a  result  of  their  reception 
the  company  thought  it  advisable  to  book 
them  in  the  Manhattan  Opera  House,  to 
accommodate  the  large  crowds  anxious 
to  view  these  unusual  subjects. 

Engagements  followed  at  other  metro- 
politan theatres,  playing  to  capacity.  The 
demand  for  further  showing  became  so 
persistent  that  the  Shuberts  booked  the 
pictures  for  a  return  engagement  at  the 
Forty-fourth  street  house. 


Attendance  of  8,555,  with  Weekly  Receipts 
Theatre,  Promises  Harvest  for  Exhibitors 

The  pictures,  regardless  of  the  ap- 
parently biased  title,  make  a  strong  ap- 
peal to  all  picture-goers  who  like  action 
and  thrill.  The  films  bring  to  the  spec-